Title 1, Government Organization.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all District subordinate agencies, independent agencies, and instrumentalities shall use a ranking system based on a scale of 100 points for all employment decisions for positions equivalent to Career Service, educational employee, …

The goal of affirmative action in employment throughout the District government is, and must continue to be, full representation, in jobs at all salary and wage levels and scales, in accordance with the representation of all groups in the available work force of the District of C…

Every District government agency shall develop and submit to the Mayor and Council an affirmative action plan. Such plan shall be submitted within 12 calendar weeks after May 6, 1976, and each year thereafter, at the time each agency’s annual budget is submitted to the Council.

(a) Each plan shall state the number of females and males who are Black, White, Spanish-speaking, Native American, and Asian American, who would, by using the goal of their representation in the available work force in the District, be employed by the agency at the actual employm…

The plan shall state the number of hires and promotions the agency projects for the period until the next plan is submitted, and the number of hires and promotions of the groups enumerated in § 1-521.03, projected for that period. Such projections shall be broken down in the mann…

The plan shall further state what actions the agency is taking to secure the equal employment opportunity within the agency of the groups enumerated in § 1-521.03, and of the aging, the young, persons with disabilities, and the homosexual citizens of the District, whether such ci…

Equal employment opportunity is a continuing responsibility of every agency, whether or not the hiring and promotion goals in affirmative action employment plans have been reached.

The plan shall further state the number of hires, promotions, and terminations (due to retirement, death, reductions in service or force, lack of performance, disciplinary action, and all other reasons), and indicate the permanent, temporary, or probationary status of the termina…

The Mayor shall have the authority and is directed to detail, on a full-time basis, all persons who, on May 6, 1976, are employed, on a full-time basis, as nonuniformed equal employment opportunity officers and equal employment opportunity specialists by any agency of the Distric…

(a) The Mayor shall nominate persons to serve as subordinate agency heads in the Executive Service established by subchapter X-A of Chapter 6 of this title [§ 1-610.51 et seq.], subject to the advice and consent of the Council, within 180 calendar days of the date of the establis…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regulation, an employee of the District of Columbia Public Schools shall be: (1) Classified as an Educational Service employee; (2) Placed under the personnel authority of the Board of Education; and (3) Subject to all Boar…

For purposes of vesting pursuant to § 1-626.10(b), creditable service with the District for employees whose participation in the District Defined Contribution Plan ceases as a result of the implementation of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 shall include: (1) continuous service pe…

This subchapter shall apply to any District employee or District retiree who is covered by the retirement program defined under § 1-702(7), or the retirement program established by §§ 1-626.03 to 1-626.12, or an officer, member, or retiree of the United States Park Police Force, …

(a) “Court order” means any judgment, decree, or property settlement issued by or approved by any court of any state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Virgin Islands, and any Native American court in connection …

(a) For purposes of this section, “former spouse” means a living person whose marriage to an employee or retiree has been subject to a divorce, annulment, or legal separation resulting in a court order, except that with respect to an award of a survivor annuity, it additionally m…

(a) For purposes of this section, “former spouse” means a living person: (1) Who was married for at least 9 months to an employee or retiree who performed at least 18 months creditable service in a position covered by 1 or more of the retirement systems referred to in § 1-529.01;…

The Mayor shall, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2, issue proposed rules to implement the provisions of this subchapter. The proposed rules shall be submitted to the Council of the District of Columbia (“Council”) for a 45-day period of review, excluding Saturdays,…

(a) Any agency that is represented by the Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (“OLRCB”) in third-party cases, grievances, and dispute resolution shall pay the cost of representation established through an intradistrict agreement with the OLRCB. (b) Beginning in Fi…

Beginning with the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2004, the Mayor shall provide in the budget funding for the Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (“OLRCB”) represented as a separate line or responsibility center. The Mayor shall include in the budget request subm…

(a) The Mayor shall develop and adopt a workplace wellness policy for the District government no later than one year following February 26, 2015. The workplace wellness policy shall be reviewed and updated annually. (b) The workplace wellness policy required by subsection (a) of …

(a) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [§ 2-501 et seq.], shall issue rules establishing healthy food and beverage nutrition and procurement standards that are guided by the General Services Administration document “Health and Sustainability Guidelines fo…

The Council of the District of Columbia finds that: (1) The provisions of § 1-204.22(3) require that the Council of the District of Columbia adopt a comprehensive merit system of personnel management for the government of the District of Columbia before January 2, 1980. (2) The p…

(a) The Council of the District of Columbia declares that it is the purpose and policy of this chapter to assure that the District of Columbia government shall have a modern flexible system of public personnel administration, which shall: (1) Provide for increasingly autonomous c…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, unless specifically exempted from certain provisions, this chapter shall apply to all employees of the District of Columbia government, except the Chief Judges and Associate Judges of the Superior Court of the District of …

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the following employees of the District of Columbia government only to the following extent: (1) The Mayor, each member of the Council of the District of Columbia, and the Attorney General are entitled to pay, as provided in § 1-611.0…

(a) Educational employees of the District of Columbia Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter with the exception of subchapters VIII, IX (except to the extent provided therein),…

(a) Persons employed by the District of Columbia government serving on the date that this chapter becomes effective, as provided in § 1-636.02, shall be guaranteed rights and benefits at least equal to those currently applicable to such persons under provisions of personnel law a…

In accordance with the provisions of § 1-602.04, the Mayor and each personnel authority shall cause the development of unified systems for all employees of the District of Columbia government. Each employee of the District of Columbia government employed on December 31, 1979, sha…

On the date that the provisions of § 1-617.16 become operational and negotiations commence concerning compensation matters, all employees of the District government in the appropriate bargaining units under § 1-617.16, including those described in § 1-602.04, shall be subject to …

For the purpose of this chapter unless otherwise required by the context: (a)(1) The term “agency” means any unit of the District of Columbia government required by law, by the Mayor of the District of Columbia, or by the Council of the District to administer any law, rule, or an…

It is the intent of the Council that the District’s personnel management system provide for equitable application of appropriate rules or regulations among all agencies. Further, it is the intent of the Council that the rules, regulations, and standards issued by the personnel au…

(a) There is established an Office of Personnel, the head of which is the Director of Personnel. (b) The Director of Personnel shall be appointed by the Mayor in accordance with the provisions of subchapter X-A of this chapter. (c) To be eligible for appointment as Director of Pe…

The District of Columbia Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia may delegate their duties and functions under this chapter, in whole or in part, to employees under their respective jurisdictions.

(a) The Mayor shall issue rules and regulations to implement the provisions of subchapters II, IV, VII, VIII, VIII-B, IX, IX-A, X-A, XI, XII, XIII, XIII-A, XV, XVI-A, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XX-A, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, and XXXIV o…

Rules and regulations proposed or issued pursuant to § 1-604.04, and amendments, shall be issued according to the provisions of § 2-505.

(a) The implementation of the rules and regulations shall be undertaken by the appropriate personnel authority for employees of the District. (b) For the purposes of subsection (a) of this section, the personnel authority for District of Columbia government means the Mayor for al…

All positions and employees of the District who spent 50 percent or more of their regular duty hours on January 1, 1976, or at any time since that date performing personnel functions, are transferred to the Office of Personnel unless properly reclassified by the District of Colum…

Each personnel authority of an agency of the District shall designate a person to administer the oath of office to each employee of that agency. The oath shall be as follows: “I, (employee’s name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the laws of the United…

(a) There is established a Public Employee Relations Board (hereinafter referred to in this subchapter as the “Board”) consisting of 5 members, not otherwise in the employment of any labor organization granted exclusive recognition under this chapter or the District of Columbia g…

The Board shall have the power to do the following: (1) Resolve unit determination questions and other representation issues (including but not limited to disputes concerning the majority status of a labor organization); (2) Certify and decertify exclusive bargaining representati…

(a) The property and facilities of the Board of Labor Relations, established pursuant to Commissioner’s Order 70-229, shall be transferred to the Public Employee Relations Board as provided in subchapter XXXVI of this chapter. (b) The personnel and positions assigned to the Board…

The Board shall cause a copy of each order, decision, or opinion rendered by it to be published in the District of Columbia Register within 60 days of its issuance.

(a) There is established an Office of Employee Appeals (hereinafter referred to in this subchapter as the “Office”). The Office shall be composed of 5 members to be appointed by the Mayor in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section within 60 days of the da…

(a) The Office shall have, in addition to the authority necessary and proper for carrying out its duties as specified elsewhere in this subchapter, the authority to: (1) Appoint and remove employees of the Office, subject to applicable provisions of this chapter; (2) Hear and adj…

(a) An employee may appeal a final agency decision affecting a performance rating which results in removal of the employee (pursuant to subchapter XIII-A of this chapter), an adverse action for cause that results in removal, reduction in force (pursuant to subchapter XXIV of this…

(a) The personnel authority shall establish internal rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the procedures of this subchapter, for conducting hearings affecting individual employees whose removal is proposed or effected for cause pursuant to subchapter XVI-A of this chapter…