Title 1, Government Organization.

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…

(a) There is established within the Council of the District of Columbia a Council Employee Student Loan Repayment Assistance Program to provide eligible post-secondary loan repayment assistance to Council employees who have been employed at the Council for one or more years as of…

(a) For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) "Sexual harassment" shall have the same meaning as applied pursuant to § 2-1402.11. (2) "Sexual Harassment Officer" means, for each agency of the District government, the agency's equal employment opportunity officer, human r…

(a) For each fiscal year, each agency shall track how many sexual harassment complaints by the agency's employees: (1) Have been reported; (2) Have been resolved by mediation; (3) Have been investigated; (4) Have been substantiated through investigation; (5) Have been deemed unsu…

(a) By November 12, 2023, and annually thereafter, each agency shall transmit all data collected pursuant to § 1-546.02 regarding the preceding fiscal year to the Office of Human Rights. (b) By December 3, 2023, and annually thereafter, the Office of Human Rights shall submit a r…

This subchapter may be cited as the "Bonus Pay and Special Awards Pay Act of 2016".

(a) Unless authorized pursuant to this subchapter, no funds shall be used to support the categories of bonus pay or special awards pay. The prohibition on the use of funds under this subchapter shall include funds appropriated to any agency, department, unit, or instrumentality o…

(a) In order to use funds for bonus pay or special awards pay, a District agency, department, unit, or instrumentality shall establish a Performance Based Rewards Program ("Program") that is approved by the personnel authority for the relevant agency, department, unit, or instrum…

In addition to any other requirements under this subchapter, any payment of bonus pay or special awards pay made pursuant to § 1-551.02(b) shall be followed, within 60 days of the payment, by notification in writing to the relevant personnel authority of the issuance of the payme…

Any authorization under this subchapter for the use of funds to support the categories of bonus pay or special awards pay shall not extend to a payment to a subordinate agency head in the Executive Service established by subchapter X-A of Chapter 6 of this title.

(a) Notwithstanding the prohibition in § 1-551.02(a), funds may be used to pay: (1) Retirement awards; (2) Hiring bonuses for difficult-to-fill positions; (3) Additional income allowances for difficult-to-fill positions; provided, that this is not a waiver of § 1-551.05; (4) Agen…

Pursuant to § 1-204.55(a), the District of Columbia Auditor shall be paid at a rate equal to the compensation of the Chairman of the Council established pursuant to § 1-204.03(d).

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 Department of Human Resources shall develop partnerships with schools and organizations, including District of Columbia Public Schools high schools and public charter high schools, adult education schools, and nonprofit organizations that prepare District residents for Distri…

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, XX-B, XX-C, XX-D, XX-E, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, …

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…