A. “Appointment authority” means each employee empowered by the city administrative officer to have substantial influence over appointments and other personnel actions. This includes department heads and in some cases division heads.

B. “Benefit date” means the date which determines eligibility for salary step and fringe-benefit increases. If the date of hire or promotion occurs on or between the first and fifteenth day of the month, the benefit date is the first of that month. If the date of hire or promotion is after the fifteenth of the month, the benefit date is the first of the following month.

C. “Business days” means calendar days exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.

D. “Certification” means the submission to an appointing authority of the eligible list from which a selection to fill a vacant position shall be made.

E. “Classification” means all positions sufficiently similar in duties, authority, and responsibility to permit grouping under a common title in the application with equity of common standards of selection, transfer, demotion and salary.

F. “Days” means calendar days unless specified otherwise.

G. “Demotion” means the movement of an employee from one class to another class having a lower maximum rate of pay.

H. “Eligible list” means a list of qualified candidates eligible for employment with the city under specific conditions as a result of open or promotional examination for a job classification.

I. “Examination” means any selection instrument, process or procedure used to measure the ability of a person applying for a position within the city service to perform successfully in that position.

J. “Line-item position” means a position which is specifically itemized in the city budget, requiring forty hours or more per week. Such a position is eligible to accumulate fringe benefits.

K. “Normal work week” means the number of an employee’s regularly scheduled paid hours of work averaged over the fiscal year.

L. “Probationary employee” means an employee appointed from an eligible list filling a line-item position in the classified service who has not completed the probationary period.

M. “Promotion” means the advancement of an employee from one job classification to another having a higher maximum base rate of pay.

N. “Reclassification” means the change in classification of an individual position by raising it to a higher, reducing it to a lower, or allocating to another classification at the same pay range, on the basis of significant and substantive changes in the kind or difficulty of duties and responsibilities in that position.

O. “Regular employee” means an employee filling a line-item position who has successfully completed the probationary period and has been retained as hereafter provided in this chapter.

P. “Reinstatement” means the reemployment without examination of a former regular or probationary employee following separation of service with the city within the time limits prescribed in this chapter.

Q. “Suspension” means the temporary separation of an employee from the city service for disciplinary reasons with loss of pay.

R. “Temporary appointment” means the placement of a person in a line-item position on an interim basis while an eligible list is being prepared for the appointment of a probationary employee.

S. “Temporary position” means a position not specifically itemized in the budget, either full or part time, requiring less than an average of forty hours per week for the calendar year. Such a position is not eligible to accumulate fringe benefits and is paid on a straight hourly basis for all hours worked, with the exception of retirement benefits which are accrued and partially paid for by employees who work an average of twenty hours a week or more during a calendar year.

T. “Temporary promotion” means the advancement of a regular or probationary employee from one line-item position to another on an interim basis.

U. “Transfer” means a change of an employee from one position to another position in the same classification or in a comparable classification having the same pay range, requiring substantially the same basic qualifications and involving the performance of similar duties. (Prior code § 2701)