National City Municipal Code Ch. 3.24 Disciplinary Actions

Department heads or their designees are vested with the responsibility and authority to impose discipline upon employees. It is the intent and spirit of this title to provide a fair and just approach to the treatment of city employees but in no sense to handicap or curtail the responsible administrative officer in securing efficient service. Under this authority a department director or his/her designee may impose action to dismiss, demote, suspend, or reduce the pay of an employee subject to duly adopted personnel rules.

(Ord. 2072 § 6, 1994: Ord. 1943 § 7, 1988: Ord. 1076 § 7(1), 1963)

In order to bring one of the disciplinary actions stated in Section 3.24.010 against a regular career employee who has successfully completed the initial probationary period, a department head or his/her designee must cite one or more of the causes cited in the personnel rules.

(Ord. 2072 § 7, 1994: Ord. 1076 § 7(2), 1963)