Section 6-B2499. DEFINITIONS

 

2499.1When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed:

 

Agency – any unit of the District government required by law, by the Mayor of the District of Columbia, or by the Council of the District of Columbia (Council) to administer any law, rule, or regulation adopted under authority of law.  The term agency shall also include any unit of the District government created or organized by the Council as an agency.

 

Competing employee - an employee in tenure groups I, II, or III.

 

Competitive area - the organizational boundaries in which a reduction in force or a furlough is conducted.

 

Competitive level - the grouping of similar positions (in a competitive area) within which employees compete for retention.

 

Creditable service - all service in the employ of the District or federal government that is creditable for purposes of the employee’s retirement system.

 

Days - calendar days, unless otherwise specified.

 

Detail - a temporary assignment of an employee to a different position to meet a temporary need for a specified period, with the employee returning to his or her regular duties at the end of the detail. An employee may be detailed to an established or an unestablished position. A position is not filled by a detail, as the employee continues to be the incumbent of the position from which detailed.

 

Displaced employee - a former employee in the Career Service, a line attorney in the Legal Service, a supervisory and a non-supervisory in the Legal Service who does not occupy a Senior Executive Attorney Service position, or an Excepted Service attorney who was separated by reduction in force.

 

Furlough - the temporary involuntary placement of all employees within a competitive area in a non-duty, non-pay status for an equitable period of time within a leave year for the reason set forth in § 2438.1.

 

Job sharing - the occupancy of a continuing position, which is budgeted as a full-time position, by two (2) or more employees on a part-time basis continuously during a designated period. This option may be appropriately used when the agency determines that the position needs to be filled on a full-time basis in order to avoid disrupting its operation.

 

Obligated position - a position to which an employee has restoration rights under the provisions of the Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (38 U.S.C. § 2021 et seq.).

 

One round of competition - a round of lateral competition for job retention in the employee's competitive level.

 

Personnel authority – an individual or entity with the authority to administer all or part of a personnel management program as provided in section 401 of the CMPA (D.C. Official Code §§ 1-604.01, et seq. (2006 Repl. & 2011 Supp.)).

 

Preference eligible - a veteran preference eligible as defined in 5 U.S.C. § 2108 and § 2417 of this chapter.

 

Realignment - an action which affects the internal structure or functions of an agency, but which does not constitute a reorganization.

 

Reduced working hours - the occupancy of a position by one (1) individual on less than a full-time basis and the employee is placed in a non-duty, non-pay status either continuously or discontinuously during a designated period. This option may be appropriately used when the agency determines that the position may be filled on a part-time basis temporarily, without undue interruption of the work program.

 

Released employee - an employee who has been reached for release from his or her competitive level.

 

Reorganization –   the action taken for the purposes of carrying out the objectives of section 2 of the Governmental Reorganization Procedures Act of 1981, effective October 17, 1981 (D.C. Law 4-42; D.C. Official Code § 1-315.01 (2006 Repl.)), which results in the transfer, consolidation, abolishment, addition, or authorization with respect to functions and hierarchy, between or among agencies, and which affects the structure or structures thereof, and which is subject to adoption by legislative action, including consideration by the Council of the District of Columbia, in accordance with the Act;  including but not limited to the: (1) transfer of the whole or part of an agency, or the whole or part of the functions thereof, to the jurisdiction and control of another agency; (2) consolidation of the whole or part of an agency, or the whole or part of the functions thereof, with the whole or part of another agency or the functions thereof; (3) the abolishment of the whole or part of an agency wherein such agency or part thereof does not have or will not have any functions; or (4) authorization of an officer or agency head to delegate functions vested in specific officers or agency heads not presently authorized to be delegated, except as provided in D.C. Official Code § 1-204.22(6) (2006 Repl. & 2011 Supp.)). 

 

Retention register - the listing of employees occupying positions in a competitive level by tenure group and reduction-in-force service computation date.

 

Retention standing - the employee’s standing on the retention register in relation to other competing employees within his or her competitive level.

 

Temporary appointment - an appointment with a specific time limitation of one (1) year or less.

 

Temporary Appointment Pending Establishment of a Register (TAPER) – 

a time-limited appointment to a continuing position in the Career Service or Management Supervisory Service that the personnel authority approved and established when:

 

(a) There are insufficient eligible candidates on an appropriate register or in the absence of a list of eligible candidates; and

 

(b) The public interest requires that the vacancy be filled before eligibles can be certified.

 

Tenure group - the retention group in which competing employees shall be categorized according to their current type of appointment.

 

Term appointment - an appointment with a specific time limitation in excess of one (1) year, but not exceeding four (4) years, unless extended by the personnel authority as provided in Chapter 8 of these regulations, or as otherwise provided by statute.

 

authority

The Director of the D.C. Department of Human Resources, with the concurrence of the City Administrator, pursuant to Mayor’s Order 2008-92, dated June 26, 2008, and in accordance with sections 2401 through 2409 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code §§ 1-624.01, et seq. (2006 Repl. & 2011 Supp.))

source

As amended by Final Rulemaking published at 40 DCR 2114 (March 26, 1993); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 44 DCR 3933 (July 11, 1997); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 47 DCR 2425 (April 7, 2000); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 10573 (December 12, 2003); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 55 DCR 12899, 12902 (December 26, 2008); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 8400, 8412 (July 13, 2012).