Title GOV — California Gov. Code

When there is no employment list from which a position may be filled, the appointing power, with the consent of the department, may fill the position by temporary appointment. The temporary appointment to a permanent position shall continue only until eligibles are available from…

A person who does not possess the minimum qualifications for the class to which the position belongs shall not be appointed under a temporary appointment. A temporary appointee shall not acquire any probationary or permanent status or rights, and time spent under temporary appoin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person appointed to a trade-rate apprentice class in the Office of State Printing shall be appointed to the appropriate journeyman trade-rate class upon completion of the apprenticeship. A person who is first appointed to a trade-rate…

If there are no vacancies in the appropriate journeyman trade-rate class, the employee completing an apprenticeship under Section 19061 shall be afforded the opportunity to elect one of the following: (a) If the employee’s seniority rating at the time of appointment to the approp…

An employee holding a full- or part-time appointment shall be entitled to the amount of employment specified at the time of the appointment, subject to provisions of law and rule governing work force reduction and separation from civil service positions.

The department may establish eligibility requirements governing movement of employees between full-time, part-time, and intermittent positions.

(a) Any person receiving state public assistance under the CalWORKs program (Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) who meets the minimum qualifications for any civil service position as a seasonal or…

Each state agency that intends to establish qualified hiring pools, as defined by the department, for seasonal or entry level nontesting class employment shall notify the Employment Development Department or its delegate in the area where the openings are expected to occur at lea…

Each state agency that has an open seasonal or entry level nontesting class position, but does not have a qualified hiring pool, shall notify the Employment Development Department or its delegate in the area where the job is located of the opening no later than five working days …

This article may be waived by the Governor, if requested to do so by the state agency involved, in order to address an emergency which threatens the public health or safety, the state’s natural resources, or the economy. If an emergency waiver is granted, notification including r…

If no public assistance recipient applies for an opening within the time limits established by this article, the state agency may fill the opening with a person not receiving public assistance. In the event a person not receiving public assistance is hired, the state agency shall…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, participation in a seasonal or entry level nontesting class vacancy by a public assistance recipient shall be voluntary only, and in no event shall any person be subject to sanctions, through loss of benefits or eligibility, for not app…

Any seasonal or entry level nontesting classifications specifically designed to support a program to train students, as determined by the department, to the extent that they are authorized as of the effective date of this article, shall be exempt from this article. However, state…

Whenever an appointing power requires the appointment of a person on a limited term basis, the request for certification shall state the duration of the position.

Limited term appointments shall be made only for temporary staffing needs and shall not individually or consecutively exceed one year, provided that the board may authorize limited term appointments of up to a total of two years’ duration when a permanent appointment would be lik…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 19080.3, a limited term appointment for a period not to exceed two years may be made to professional education classifications established for use by the Department of Education to facilitate the professional development of experienced professional edu…

Eligibles shall be certified in accordance with their position on the appropriate employment list and their willingness to accept appointment to such position as “limited term employees.”

The department may provide for the establishment, maintenance, and use of preferred limited-term lists.

Limited-term employees shall be subject to such conditions affecting appointment, status, tenure and separation during and after employment as the board by rule determines, including providing for the establishment of employment lists from which appointments are made.

Whenever the appointing power requires the appointment of a person to a position requiring the performance of work on an intermittent or irregular time basis, the request for certification shall state the probable amount of working time to be required in the position. For persons…

The department or a designated appointing authority may establish employment lists from which intermittent appointments may be made. Eligibles shall be certified in accordance with their position on the appropriate employment list and their willingness to accept appointment to su…

The purpose of this article is to establish standards for the use of personal services contracts. (a) Personal services contracting is permissible to achieve cost savings when all the following conditions are met: (1) The contracting agency clearly demonstrates that the proposed …

Any state agency proposing to execute a contract pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 19130 shall notify the State Personnel Board of its intention. All organizations that represent state employees who perform the type of work to be contracted, and any person or organization wh…

(a) The State Personnel Board, at the request of an employee organization that represents state employees, shall review the adequacy of any proposed or executed contract that is of a type enumerated in subdivision (b) of Section 19130. The review shall be conducted in accordance …

(a) Any state agency may enter into an agreement with any public or private institution of higher education in California, nonprofit campus foundation, or state higher education foundation to provide part-time employment to students attending a public or private institution of hi…

(a) Personal services contracts entered into by a state agency in accordance with Section 19130 for persons providing janitorial and housekeeping services, custodians, food service workers, laundry workers, window cleaners, and security guard services shall include provisions for…

(a) If a contract is disapproved by action of the board or its delegate, a state agency shall immediately discontinue that contract unless ordered otherwise by the board or its delegate. The state agency shall not circumvent or disregard the board’s action by entering into anothe…

(a) In addition to reinstatement required under any other section, an appointing power may, in his or her discretion, reinstate any person having probationary or permanent status who was separated from his or her position (1) by resignation, (2) by service retirement, (3) by term…

This section applies only to a permanent employee, or an employee who previously had permanent status and who, since receiving permanent status, has had no break in the continuity of state service due to a permanent separation. An employee who is (a) terminated from a temporary o…

(a) This section applies only to an employee in an exempt position who previously had permanent status in the civil service. As used in this section, “former position” is defined as in Section 18522, or, if the appointing power to which reinstatement is to be made and the employe…

(a) This section only applies to employees in an exempt position who have reinstatement rights to their former positions under Section 19141. (b) Within four years of the termination of an appointment in an exempt position, an employee who has completed a minimum of five years of…

(a) Every person accepts and holds a position in the state civil service subject to mandatory reinstatement of another person. (b) Upon reinstatement of a person any necessary separations are effected under the provisions of Section 19997.3 governing layoff and demotion except th…

At the termination of any temporary separation, except termination of a permanent or probationary employee by layoff and termination by displacement, as defined in regulation, the employee shall be reinstated to his or her former position, as defined in Section 18522, unless some…

Subject to Sections 21223 and 21224, a person who has retired from state civil service may be employed temporarily in a civil service position at any time following retirement, provided that the position is either: (a) In the class in which the person had permanent or probationar…

(a) The board shall establish the length of the probationary period for each class to be six months, unless the board establishes a longer period of not more than one year. The probationary period commences on the first day the employee reports to work or begins performing the jo…

The service of a probationary period is required under the following circumstances: (a) when an employee enters or is promoted in the state civil service by permanent appointment from an employment list, (b) upon reinstatement after a break in continuity of service resulting from…

During the probationary period the appointing power shall evaluate the work and efficiency of a probationer in the manner and at such periods as the department rules may require.

(a) Any probationer may be rejected by the appointing power during the probationary period for reasons relating to the probationer’s qualifications, the good of the service, or failure to demonstrate merit, efficiency, fitness, and moral responsibility, but he or she shall not be…

The board at the written request of a rejected probationer, filed within 15 calendar days of the effective date of rejection, may investigate with or without a hearing the reasons for rejection. After investigation, the board may do any of the following: (a) Affirm the action of …

The board, upon the written request of a probationer who has been rejected for medical reasons only, may restore the name of the rejected probationer to the employment list from which his name originally was certified if the list is still in existence and the board determines aft…

The board, upon the written request of a probationer who has been rejected after appointment from a general re-employment list, shall restore the name of the rejected probationer to the re-employment list from which his name was originally certified. His name shall not again be c…

Subject to board rule an appointing power may cancel or withdraw a notice of rejection of a probationer.

If the board restores a rejected probationer to his or her position it shall direct the payment of salary to the employee for such period of time as the rejection was improperly in effect. Salary shall not be authorized or paid for any portion of a period of rejection that the em…

Whenever the United States is engaged in war or whenever the department finds that an emergency exists in connection with the national defense, the department may authorize duration examinations and employments in those classes in which the best interests of the state would be se…

The Legislature hereby declares that: (a) It is the policy of this state to encourage and enable individuals with a disability to participate fully in the social and economic life of the state and to engage in remunerative employment. (b) It is the policy of this state that quali…

As used in this article, “individual with a disability” means any individual who has a physical or mental disability as defined in Section 12926.

Each state agency shall be responsible for establishing an effective affirmative action program to ensure individuals with a disability, who are capable of remunerative employment, access to positions in state service on an equal and competitive basis with the general population.…

The department shall be responsible for the following: (a) Outline specific actions to improve the representation of individuals with a disability in the state workforce and to ensure equal and fair employment practices for employees who are individuals with a disability. (b) Sur…

Each state agency shall annually review its hiring activities designed to achieve the employment objectives established pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 19233 to determine if any category of individuals with a disability have been disproportionately excluded on a non-job-re…

The department shall provide technical assistance, statewide advocacy, coordination, and monitoring of plans to overcome any underrepresentation determined pursuant to Section 19234.