Fresno Unified to send 250 layoff notices after enrollment declines

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno Unified School District plans to contented 250 preliminary layoff notices to classified employees this twelvemonth arsenic the territory responds to declining pupil attendance and a driblet of 1,000 students successful enrollment.

Under the authorities acquisition code, schoolhouse districts indispensable supply preliminary layoff notices by March 15 each year.

District officials said this year's notices volition spell to classified unit crossed a scope of positions, including teachers, custodians, autobus drivers and counselors.

Employees who person a announcement whitethorn petition a proceeding if they judge they should not beryllium included successful the yearly layoff cycle.

Those hearings are expected to instrumentality spot adjacent period earlier an administrative instrumentality judge, who volition contented recommendations connected each case. The schoolhouse committee volition past determine whether to follow those recommendations earlier last notices are sent successful May.

Annarita Howell of Fresno Unified Human Resources said the process does not ever effect successful occupation loss.

"The bumping and layoff process, the statutory requirements for layoff request to instrumentality spot due to the fact that determination whitethorn beryllium a simplification of hours oregon a simplification of work days oregon a simplification successful salary. So layoffs does not needfully mean radical are losing their jobs. They whitethorn beryllium reassigned oregon bumped into different position," she said.

District officials said the bumping and layoff process volition beryllium based connected worker seniority.

Final notices are scheduled to beryllium issued by May 14.

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