State employees could qualify for severance under job-loss rules

The proposal sets out when a full-time state employee could qualify for transitional severance. The text covers full-time Commonwealth employees in the listed state jobs and personnel categories. The employee must have no available state job for which they are qualified, or the offered job must require relocation or lower pay. The separation must not be due to job performance or misconduct. An employee whose position depends on project grants qualifies only if the funding source agreed in writing to cover the full cost. Members of the Judicial Retirement System and officers elected by popular vote are not eligible. Eligibility would begin on the date of involuntary separation, meaning termination or placement on layoff leave without pay.