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1061
. (a) (1) If an awarding authority notifies a contractor that
the service contract between the awarding authority and the
contractor has been terminated or will be terminated, the awarding
authority shall indicate in that notification whether a successor
service contract has been or will be awarded in its place and, if so,
shall identify the name and address of the successor contractor. The
terminated contractor shall, within three working days after
receiving that notification, provide to the successor contractor
identified by the awarding authority, the name, date of hire, and job
classification of each employee employed at the site or sites
covered by the terminated service contract at the time of the
contract termination.
(2) If the terminated contractor has not learned the identity of
the successor contractor, if any, the terminated contractor shall
provide that information to the awarding authority, which shall be
responsible for providing that information to the successor
contractor as soon as that contractor has been selected.
(3) The requirements of this section shall be equally applicable
to all subcontractors of a terminated contractor.
(b) (1) A successor contractor or successor subcontractor shall
retain, for a 60-day transition employment period, employees who have
been employed by the terminated contractor or its subcontractors, if
any, for the preceding four months or longer at the site or sites
covered by the successor service contract unless the successor
contractor or successor subcontractor has reasonable and
substantiated cause not to hire a particular employee based on that
employee's performance or conduct while working under the terminated
contract. This requirement shall be stated by awarding authorities in
all initial bid packages that are governed by this chapter.
(2) The successor contractor or successor subcontractor shall make
a written offer of employment to each employee, as required by this
section, in the employee's primary language or another language in
which the employee is literate. That offer shall state the time
within which the employee must accept that offer, but in no case may
that time be less than 10 days. Nothing in this section requires the
successor contractor or successor subcontractor to pay the same wages
or offer the same benefits as were provided by the prior contractor
or prior subcontractor.
(3) If at any time the successor contractor or successor
subcontractor determines that fewer employees are needed to perform
services under the successor service contract or successor
subcontract than were required by the terminated contractor under the
terminated contract or terminated subcontract, the successor
contractor or successor subcontractor shall retain employees by
seniority within the job classification.
(c) The successor contractor or successor subcontractor, upon
commencing service under the successor service contract, shall
provide a list of its employees and a list of employees of its
subcontractors providing services at the site or sites covered under
that contract to the awarding authority. These lists shall indicate
which of these employees were employed at the site or sites by the
terminated contractor or terminated subcontractor. The successor
contractor or successor subcontractor shall also provide a list of
any of the terminated contractor's employees who were not retained
either by the successor contractor or successor subcontractor,
stating the reason these employees were not retained.
(d) During the 60-day transition employment period, the successor
contractor or successor subcontractor shall maintain a preferential
hiring list of eligible covered employees not retained by the
successor contractor or successor subcontractor from which the
successor contractor or successor subcontractor shall hire additional
employees until such time as all of the terminated contractor's or
terminated subcontractor's employees have been offered employment
with the successor contractor or successor subcontractor.
(e) During the initial 60-day transition employment period, the
successor contractor or successor subcontractor shall not discharge
without cause an employee retained pursuant to this chapter. Cause
shall be based only on the performance or conduct of the particular
employee.
(f) At the end of the 60-day transition employment period, a
successor contractor or successor subcontractor shall provide a
written performance evaluation to each employee retained pursuant to
this chapter. If the employee's performance during that 60-day period
is satisfactory, the successor contractor or successor subcontractor
shall offer the employee continued employment. Any employment after
the 60-day transition employment period shall be at-will employment
under which the employee may be terminated without cause.