§ 6.06

(w)

"County service" or "service of the County" shall mean all positions in all departments as defined which are subject to control and regulation by the Board.

(x)

"Day" shall mean a calendar day, unless otherwise specified.

(y)

"Demotion" shall mean a reduction in salary and/or reappointment to a lower classification for disciplinary or other reasons of both a voluntary or involuntary nature.

(z)

"Dismissal" shall mean involuntary separation from the County service.

(aa)

"Eligible" shall mean an applicant who has passed all the appropriate examinations and has been placed on a register for a class of positions.

(ab)

"Eligibility list" shall mean the same as "referral register" (see subsection (bd) of this section).

(ac)

"Emergency appointment" shall mean an appointment made in response to an emergency threatening the public health, safety, or welfare pursuant to Section 2-6.05.09 of this chapter.

(ad)

"Employee" shall mean a person working in and compensated by the County over which management has the right to direct and control the way the person works, both as to the final results and as to the details of when, where, and how the work is done.

(ae)

"Employee, management" shall mean a department head, supervisor, or other employee having the authority to exercise management rights or develop management policies, or to effectively recommend the exercise of such rights or the development of such policies, where such recommendations or exercise requires the use of independent judgment and is not of a routine nature.

(af)

"Employee status" shall mean a designation based on the most recent of the following types of appointments: probationary, permanent, extra help, emergency, provisional, or student intern.

(ag)

"Extra help" shall mean those employees who are hired for seasonal work, nonrecurring work, vacation relief, or any other work of a short duration which does not require the duties of a permanent full or part- time employee. This class of employee shall not be provided holiday leave, sick leave, vacation leave, group insurance, or other types of benefits provided for permanent employees.

(ah)

"Examination" or "exam" shall mean any process, procedure, rating, interview, test, evaluation, or assessment, whether scored or unscored, formal or informal, which affects a person's eligibility for, or

consideration for, appointment.

(ai)

"Final selection examination" or "consideration" shall mean an interview, background evaluation, or other examination of a candidate used in making an appointment decision.

(aj)

"Geographical area" shall mean an area surrounding a work location which area includes those places within a distance from which an employee would reasonably be expected to commute to work and be able to respond to on-call or standby duty if required of the job classification. For reduction in force purposes, geographical area requirements shall be satisfied as well as seniority provisions.

(ak)

"Grievance" shall mean a dispute between an employee or the employee's bargaining unit and management as to the interpretation, application, or violation of any terms or provisions granted to employees by agreement, this chapter, or State and Federal statutes. For the purposes of this chapter, appeals from disciplinary actions shall not be interpreted as grievances.

(al)

"Impasse" shall mean a deadlock in discussions between a formally recognized employee organization and the designated County representative over any matters on which they are required to meet and confer in good faith or over the scope of such matters.

(am)

"Involuntary reappointment" shall mean an unsought appointment of a probationary or permanent employee, by the employee's department head, due to a shortage of work or funds, abolishment of a position, or a critical situation adversely affecting the accomplishment of program goals. Such appointments are made to a position in a different classification having the same or lower salary range than the class of the employee's previous position.

(an)

"Layoff" shall mean the termination of the services of an employee for nondisciplinary reasons but rather because of the lack of work or funds or for other reasons not related to employee job performance.

(ao)

"Leave" shall mean an authorized absence from work during normally scheduled working hours.

(ap)

"Minimum qualifications" shall mean standards which designate the typical types of, and minimum levels of, training and/or experience through which one would be expected to acquire the knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, and other requirements necessary for satisfactory performance upon entry to a class, or a description of the knowledge, skills, and personal characteristics required.

(aq)

"Nepotism" shall mean the hiring of relatives of current County employees. First and second degree relationships by blood or marriage are as follows: parents, children, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, spouse, grandchildren, brother, sister, grandparents, grandfather-in-law, grandmother-in- law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, grandson-in-law, and granddaughter-in-law.

(ar)

"Performance evaluation" shall mean a formal review of an employee's work activities and job performance over a particular period of time.

(as)

"Permanent position" shall mean a budgeted position as defined by a specific classification and excluding extra help positions.

(at)

"Permanent status" shall mean when an employee assigned to a permanent position satisfactorily completes a probationary period.

(au)

"Position" shall mean a specific office, employment, or job calling for the performance of certain tasks, duties, and responsibilities.

(av)

"Probationary period" shall mean the time limited period of paid service established to review an employee's job performance as an extension of the examination process required before an employee gains permanent status.

(aw)

"Promotion" or "promotional appointment" shall mean an appointment of an employee candidate having permanent or probationary status to a position in a different class having a higher pay range than the pay range of the class of the employee's previous position.

(ax)

"Provisional appointment" shall mean an appointment of an applicant not on the register pursuant to Section 2-6.05.07 of this chapter.

(ay)

"Open recruitment" or "open examination" shall mean a position or employment test open to the public and not limited to applicants currently in the County service.

(az)

"Qualifying examination" shall mean an examination which is scored on a pass or fail basis, the scores of which do not indicate relative levels of suitability among those who are determined to be qualified.

(ba)

"Ranking examination" shall mean an examination, the scores of which are appropriate for indicating relative levels of suitability among those who pass.

(bb)

"Reclassification" or "reallocation of a position" shall mean the changing of a position from one classification to another classification based on the duties assigned pursuant to Sections 2-6.07.03, 2- 6.07.04, and 2-6.08.04 of this chapter.

(bc)

"Reduction in force" shall mean an involuntary separation from service due to a shortage of funds or work, organizational changes, or other reasons of business necessity, not involving performance or conduct, which require a reduction in staff.

(bd)

"Referral" or "referral register" shall mean a list of eligible candidates prepared by the Personnel Office from which final selection consideration for an appointment to a specific position at a particular point in time may be given pursuant to Section 2-6.05 of this chapter.

(be)

"Reinstatement" shall mean the reemployment or restoration of a former employee to a class in which permanent status was held.

(bf)

"Resignation" shall mean a voluntary separation from the County service.

(bg)

"Score" shall mean an index, indication, description, or designation of examination results.

(bh)

"Seniority" shall mean the length of continuous County service without a break due to separation.

(bi)

"Separation" shall mean a break in service resulting from a resignation, termination, retirement, dismissal, reduction in force, or death as provided in Section 2-6.06 of this chapter.

(bj)

"Step" shall mean a pay rate, expressed in hourly, biweekly, or monthly rates, designated in terms of its relationship with other compensation rates in a compensation range.

(bk)

"Step date" shall mean the date upon which an employee is eligible to receive a salary increase based on satisfactory performance and the provisions set forth in Section 2-6.08.02 of this chapter.

(bl)

"Student intern appointment" shall mean a time-limited appointment of a student where such employment constitutes a recognized phase of the student's educational or training program.

(bm)

"Supervisor" shall mean an employee having statutory or properly delegated authority to appoint, suspend, transfer, promote, dismiss, lay off, demote, assign work, direct or discipline other employees, or effectively recommend such action if the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or administrative nature but requires the use of independent judgment.

(bn)

"Suspension" shall mean an involuntary imposed leave for disciplinary purposes or during investigatory or judicial proceedings.

(bo)

"Temporary assignment" shall mean an employee who fills in for a vacated position for a short period of time.

(bp)

"Termination" shall mean a voluntary or involuntary separation of an employee.

(bq)

"Time-limited appointment" shall mean an emergency, provisional, temporary, extra help, or student intern appointment made for a confined duration which must be terminated within some restricted time period.

(br)

"Transfer" shall mean the appointment of an employee from one position to another position within the same classification.

(bs)

"Voluntary reappointment" shall mean an appointment of a permanent or probationary employee candidate voluntarily seeking an appointment to a position in a class having the same or lower compensation range than that of the class previously occupied.

(bt)

"Work unit" shall mean a work system composed of positions organized about a single purpose or program.

(§ II, Ord. 1039, eff. July 24, 1981)