# State Personnel and Pensions (GSP)

## Title 11. Disciplinary Actions, Layoffs, and Employment Terminations in State Personnel Management System

### Subtitle 2. Layoffs

#### Section 11-207

(a) An employee being laid off may displace another employee who has the least seniority points:

  (1) in the same class or job series as the employee being laid off; or

  (2) in any other class in which the laid-off employee previously held satisfactory nonprobationary status within the 36 months immediately prior to the effective date of the layoff.

(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall apply:

  (1) first to the employee's current appointing authority regardless of geographical area;

  (2) if the provisions in paragraph (1) of this subsection are not available, to the employee's current principal unit; or

  (3) a secretary or head of a State principal unit may limit the displacement within the principal unit to one or more of the established geographical areas as prescribed by the Secretary.

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Md. Code Ann., State Pers. & Pens. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)