Maryland Statutes
Subtitle 1 - Personnel Management
Section 18-122 - Temporary Separations -- Layoffs

(a)    An employee who is laid off because a position has been abolished, discontinued, or vacated because of a change in departmental organization or because of a stoppage or lack of work shall be placed on the eligible list for the classification of position from which the employee is laid off.
    (b)    If a vacancy occurs in the employee’s merit system position, the employee shall be reemployed in preference to any eligible individual who is not an employee of the Commission.

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