§ 71643

(a) The following positions are excluded from the competitive selection and promotion processes required by Section 71642:

(1) Subordinate judicial officers.

(2) Managerial, confidential, temporary, and limited-term positions in accordance with a trial court’s personnel policies, procedures, or plans, subject to meet and confer in good faith.

(b) If managerial, confidential, temporary, and limited-term positions are defined for the purposes of competitive selection and promotion processes within a trial court as of the implementation date of this chapter, then that definition shall be maintained for those purposes until changed subject to meet and confer in good faith. If managerial, confidential, temporary, and limited-term positions are not defined for the purposes of competitive selection and promotion processes within a trial court as of the implementation date of this chapter, then the adoption of any such definition by the trial court shall be subject to meet and confer in good faith.

(c) The exclusion of managerial, confidential, temporary, and limited term positions from required competitive selection and promotion processes shall not affect the employees’ right to representation.

(d) Permanent or regular employees who assume limited term appointments or assignments to other positions or classes shall retain their permanent or regular status during and upon expiration of the limited term appointment or assignment.

(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1010, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2001.)