Santa Clara County Municipal Code Art. 8 Evaluation

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Note— Formerly Ch. III, Art. 9.

The Director shall establish and maintain a plan for evaluating the performance of employees in the classified service.

(Ord. No. NS-304.124, § 32, 9-17-02)

Evaluations shall be considered in approving transfers, promotions, salary increases, demotions, discharges, reinstatements, reemployment and other personnel actions.

(Ord. No. NS-304.124, § 32, 9-17-02)

Evaluations shall be made periodically by the employee's immediate supervisor on approval forms and be approved by the employee's appointing authority. One copy of each report shall be maintained by the Department for its permanent records.

(Ord. No. NS-304.124, § 32, 9-17-02)

If evaluation shows an employee's work to be below a satisfactory standard, the supervisor shall take appropriate steps to assist the employee in improving. Failure by the employee to show satisfactory improvement may be deemed just cause for discharge.

(Ord. No. NS-304.124, § 32, 9-17-02)

Evaluation may be appealed in accordance with the following procedures:

(a) If an employee is not satisfied with any aspect of an evaluation, the employee shall have the right to a hearing before the employee's appointing authority in accordance with the procedures set forth in the evaluation form.

(b) In the event the employee remains unsatisfied after a hearing before the appointing authority, the employee may, within ten days after the decision of the appointing authority, request in writing to the Director of Employee Services Agency that the evaluation appeal be heard by a review board provided that the appeal is based on an aspect(s) of the evaluation which the review board is empowered to change.

(c) The review board shall be convened by the Director of Employee Services Agency and shall consist of the Director of Employee Services Agency or the Director's designee in the Human Resources Department, the appointing authority or the appointing authority's designee, who shall not be the rater, and a third member appointed by the employee.

(d) The review board shall conduct an informal hearing and shall decide all questions by a majority vote. The review board shall have the power to raise rating factors and/or overall evaluation ratings from "unsatisfactory" to "improvement needed," "improvement needed" to "competent," or "unsatisfactory" to "competent," and to strike narrative portions of the evaluation. The review board shall not have the power to otherwise alter the evaluation.

(e) In hearings before the appointing authority or the review board, the employee shall have the right to attend on release time, call witnesses on release time, and have the rater present.

(Ord. No. NS-304.124, § 32, 9-17-02; Ord. No. NS-304.134, § 61, 8-25-15)