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Military Leave - Employment Eligibility Lists

Right to retain your place on the list

If
  • your name appeared on an employment eligibility list when you entered military service and
  • became high enough on the list to be certified for a permanent position while you're on military leave,
you'll retain your place on the list
  • for three years after your release from military service, or
  • for six months following a state military emergency, whichever is earlier.

 

Your position on the list will stay ahead of names on more recent lists. Eight years after the list was originally established your name will be removed from the list.

It's your responsibility, when you enter and are released from the military service, to notify the department administering the examination that you want to retain your place on the list.

 

Appointment from a list

If your name is on a promotional or general reemployment list and becomes reachable for appointment while you're on military leave, you'll be certified for positions that become vacant during that time. If the department chooses, it may appoint you to the vacant position when you're reinstated to State service.
You'll have the opportunity to complete any necessary requirements for appointment to a higher position when you're reinstated to State service if all of the following conditions are met:
 
  • your name was certified for appointment to a higher position before entering military service, and
  • the department intended to appoint you to the higher position, and
  • the department wasn't able to complete the appointment process because you entered military service, and
  • you have a right of return to your former position.

 

Date of appointment

If you complete the requirements for appointment to a higher position, you'll be appointed to the position effective the earliest date of any appointment from that list. The State will treat you as if you'd been on military leave from that higher position as of the effective date of the appointment.
 
If you have reinstatement rights, your time spent in military service will accumulate in your newly appointed class.
 
If your name becomes reachable for appointment from either a sub-divisional or departmental reemployment list, and your name's certified to fill a vacancy, you will be appointed effective the date of your mandatory reinstatement.
 

Location of appointment

If you're appointed from a departmental reemployment list, you'll be appointed to the first vacant position in any of the locations where you wanted to work. For this reason, you should carefully select the work locations of interest to you. You may request a change in location after your return from the military, but it's up to the respective department.
 

Automatic removal from the list

If
  • your name is ahead of names on more recent lists, and,
  • after your release from the military service you refuse an offer for appointment to a permanent position,
your name will be removed from the list.
 

End of eligibility

If your name doesn't become reachable while you're on military leave, your eligibility terminates when the employment eligibility list expires or is abolished.
  Updated: 5/16/2012
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