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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="10-402" title_number="10" title_name="Employee Training Program; Awards and Benefits" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply to a temporary employee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>When a principal unit plans the closure of a facility where 50 or more employees regularly work, that unit shall give the employees of that facility notice of the planned closure of the facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the notice shall be given at least 6 months before closing a facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In any year in which the Governor fails to include sufficient funds in the annual budget to operate a facility, thereby precipitating the closure of the facility, the notice shall be given no later than 30 days following the submission of the annual budget bill to the General Assembly.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Whenever the General Assembly in any year fails to appropriate sufficient funds in the annual budget to operate a facility, thereby precipitating the closure of the facility, the notice shall be given no later than 30 days following the close of that session of the General Assembly.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If requested by an employee who is to be laid off, immediately following the notice, the department or other independent unit that plans the closure shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>begin to provide intensive job counseling and training referral for the affected employees;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>make efforts to relocate or transfer the affected employees to other departmental positions in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>notify the Department of Budget and Management and the Maryland Department of Labor of any employees who are adversely affected.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department of Budget and Management shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>develop a list of State classifications with their comparable classifications, if any; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>with the assistance of the Maryland Department of Labor, make efforts to relocate the affected State employees to vacant State positions.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Maryland Department of Labor shall develop a program to assist adversely affected State employees by providing retraining and other appropriate employment and training services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Secretary shall adopt rules and regulations to implement this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
