The state civil service. (FE)

2. The bill provides that an employee who has not obtained permanent status in class in a supervisory or management position and who is appointed to another supervisory or management position may be required to serve a probationary period.

3. Currently, assistant district attorneys who have served with the state for a continuous period of 12 months or more may only be removed, suspended without pay, discharged, reduced in base pay, or demoted for just cause. This bill grants assistant state public defenders the same rights.

4. The bill specifically provides that statutory provisions relating to annual, termination, and accumulated sabbatical leave, as well as paid holiday leave, are subject to the leave provision of the state compensation plan. Current law provides, generally, that the state compensation plan may include provisions relating to pay, benefits, and working conditions that supersede the provisions of the civil service and other applicable statutes and rules promulgated by the director of the Office of State Employment Relations and the administrator.

5. Generally, no state employee may take annual leave until he or she has completed the first six months of a probationary period for an original appointment.

The bill provides that this prohibition does not apply to an employee who uses annual leave that he or she accrued while serving in an unclassified civil service position.

6. The bill provides that career executive employees and other management employees in the state civil service are entitled to all continuous service leave if they leave those positions and are subsequently reemployed in career executive and other management positions, regardless of the duration of their leave of absence.

7. The bill provides that officials and employees of the state who have permanent status in class and who are members of the national guard, state defense force, or a reserve component of the United States armed forces and who are on military leave without pay for authorized inactive duty training or active duty for training, shall, upon reemployment immediately after such military training, receive credit for annual leave, sick leave, and legal holidays as if they had remained continuously employed by the state.

8. The bill provides that if an employee is terminated, personal holidays are prorated for the calendar year in which the termination occurs and personal holidays earned in a previous calendar year are not prorated or repaid.