SO6 and MO6 reductions

To : Correctional Supervisors (S06)


Correctional Managers (M06)

Subject: CORRECTIONAL SUPERVISORS AND MANAGERS VOLUNTARY STATEWIDE BID PROCESS

Statewide Bid: As a result of Public Safety Realignment, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is implementing a voluntary statewide transfer process to balance staff vacancies and overages at impacted institutions/locations.

Eligibility: All Correctional Supervisors and Managers at institutions/locations identified with overages will be allowed to bid to institutions/locations with vacancies throughout the State (Attachment A). These vacancies will be permanent full-time positions.

Process:

• On November 28, 2011, eligible staff may submit a statewide bid form to their local Personnel Assignment Office (PAO).

• All requests for transfer will be awarded utilizing total qualifying state service.

• Staff shall rank their transfer preferences in numerical order on the bid form if interested in more than one institution.

• An employee’s participation in this voluntary process constitutes their acceptance of any selection made on the bid form and is binding and non-revocable.

• Statewide bid forms will be accepted until close of business December 7, 2011. Late forms will not be accepted or processed.

• Local PAOs will collect the bid forms and provide a date/time stamped copy to the employee.

• The PAOs will submit the collected bid forms to CDCR headquarters via certified overnight mail on December 8, 2011.

• Final statewide results are anticipated December 23, 2011. Once the results of the voluntary statewide transfer process have been determined, staff will be contacted to notify them of the awarded selection and report date (if any). These results will also be posted at the institutions.

• Report dates will be assigned by CDCR headquarters and may vary according to population changes and staffing needs.

 
Benefits:  ATO and Per Diems apply
 
 
No Guarantee:  The Voluntary Statewide Bid Process is designed to provide employees with the opportunity to protect themselves against layoff.  Employees are empowered with information regarding their seniority scores, the amount of institutional overages and the amount of institutional vacancies, so that each person can analyze where and whether s/he should move (taking into account his/her seniority and whether a county is more or less likely to be impacted ultimately). 
 
As you know, if an employee moves to a location with a number of vacancies in a county where there are no overages, it is unlikely that s/he will be impacted by a layoff (as that county will not likely be in a layoff mode).


However, there are no guarantees in this process. Depending upon demotional bumping and one’s seniority score within an impacted county, an employee with low seniority within that county theoretically still could be laid off at the conclusion of the SROA/layoff process and/or permanently involuntarily transferred.

If you have any questions pertaining to this process, contact Jesse Cantwell, Correctional Lieutenant, at (916) 323-2450.



GEORGE J. GIURBINO