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City personnel office outlines complex seniority and displacement rules for any large‑scale layoffs
Summary
City Human Resources staff described the multi‑stage, labor‑rule governed process for calculating seniority, displacement and recall rights; officials warned the process is time‑consuming and will require substantial staff resources if the committee adopts broad reductions.
Los Angeles personnel managers told the Budget Precommittee that implementing large‑scale position eliminations will be technically complex and resource intensive under the city’s civil‑service rules.
In a detailed presentation the city’s personnel manager and classification analyst described the stages of the process: (1) collecting and reconciling historical employment records (including pre‑2022 records not fully migrated to the current HR system), (2) calculating seniority adjustments for time not paid and for prior…
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