The City will establish and make available to affected employees a Recall List showing all employees on demotion or layoff status along with the date of appointment. In utilizing the list, the following shall apply:

1. Persons on the Recall List shall have absolute rights over regular employment, transfer or reinstatement lists.

2. Names shall be listed in the inverse order of their layoff or demotion according to seniority. An employee shall be recalled to his or her last classification or lower classified position in any Department of the City should he or she be the most senior on the recall list or lists for the positions available. Should a lower classified position first become available and no recall list exists for such position, then the most senior employee on the recall list for the next higher classified position shall be recalled in accordance with Subsection 3 of this Section.

3. Employees on the Recall List will hold reinstatement rights for period of three years from date of layoff and be considered for openings as they arise and are determined to be medically fit, as provided in Section D.3 above.

4. Upon reinstatement, the employee will receive his or her old salary step or, if in a lower classification, the step nearest to, but not exceeding the old classification. In addition, if recalled within three years of layoff, previous seniority will be reinstated less any time spent on layoff.

5. If an employee is recalled from layoff and had been (1) serving in a probationary status and (2) never in a permanent status in the Civil Service System, then his or her past seniority shall not be reinstated for purposes of satisfying the probationary period unless recalled to the former position with six (6) months following the layoff.

6. An employee on layoff status shall be responsible for keeping the City's Management Services Department aware of the most current address and telephone number for purposes of contact at time of recall. Absences from the home for over two (2) weeks should also be reported if the employee on layoff desires to safeguard against being passed over should notice of recall be given. On notifying employees of recall, the City of Burbank shall send notice by certified mail and the employee shall have fourteen (14) calendar days to respond from receipt of such notice. Where the employee fails to respond, the City shall contact the next most senior employee on the Recall List, and the same procedures, shall apply. Failure of an employee to respond to notices sent as a result of three (3) opportunities during the permitted recall period shall cause removal of his or her name from the said list. In addition, employees must be available to return to work within two (2) weeks of receiving the above stated notification.