(A) Purpose
To establish a rule for a probationary period for all
classified civil service employees during the initial period of
employment.
(B) Scope
This rule applies to all classified civil service
employees.
(C) Definitions
(1) A "Classified Civil Service Employee" is
an hourly employee, subject to appointment, removal, promotion, transfer or
reduction by the appointing authority.
(2) A "Full-time Employee" is an employee
whose regular hours of duty total eighty hours in a bi-weekly pay
period.
(3) A "Part-time Employee"
is an employee whose regular hours of duty are less than the eighty hours in a
bi-weekly pay period.
(4) A
"Permanent Employee" is an unclassified hourly employee or classified civil
service employee who has successfully completed an initial probationary
period.
(5) A "Probationary Period"
is a period of time at the beginning of an original appointment, or immediately
following a promotion or transfer, which constitutes a trial period for the
employee.
(D) Body of
the rule
Each classified civil service employee must serve a
probationary period following any original appointment, promotion or transfer.
Classified civil service employees whose services are found unsatisfactory may
be removed at any time during the probationary period.
Whenever an employee is given a probationary removal, a written statement of
the reasons for such action, signed by the appointing authority, showing the
respects in which the employee's service was not satisfactory, shall be given
to the employee.
(1)
The probationary period shall be one hundred twenty
calendar days. After successful completion of the probationary period, the
employee will be considered certified to the ohio civil
service.
(2)
Time spent in no-pay status shall not be counted as
part of the probationary period. Probationary periods shall be extended by an
equal number of days the employee spent in no-pay status.
(3)
The appointing
authority may, with the approval of the immediate supervisor, extend an
employee's probationary period for up to sixty days to allow additional time to
review the employee's performance.
(4)
Part-time
employees who work a portion of each normal working day shall have their
probationary period determined by the number of calendar days following
appointment in the same manner as full-time employees. Employees who work an
irregular schedule or who work less than the normal number of working days per
week must work seven hundred hours, which is the equivalent of a one hundred
twenty day probationary period.
(5)
Probationary
employees are not eligible to use accrued paid leave or compensatory time until
the successful completion of the probationary period.
