Section 8-B1199. DEFINITIONS

 

1199.1When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed:

 

Acting appointment - assignment to a greater or lesser position for a period of one (1) year or less with the right to return to the former or a similar position without loss of pay or rank.

 

Administrative employee - a professional, technical, or para-professional employee of the University who has responsibilities associated with planning, development, implementation, and managing the educational or administrative functions of the University.

 

Appraisal - Comparison under an appraisal system of an employee's performance of duties and responsibilities with performance standards.

 

Appraisal period - The period of time established by an appraisal system for which an employee's performance will be reviewed.

 

Approving Official - The second level supervisor of the employee whose performance is to be appraised.

 

Conversion - the voluntary movement of an employee who occupies a position in one employment service to another position in a different employment service, or a change from Tier II to Tier I in the Educational Service.

 

Critical Function - Any component of an employee's job that is of sufficient importance that performance below the minimum standard established by management requires remedial action and denial of a within-grade increase, and may be the basis for removing or reducing the grade level of that employee. Such action may be taken without regard to performance on other components of the job.

 

Demotion - the reduction of an employee's classification level, pay level, or both due to unsatisfactory performance, decreased workload, abolishment of position, or change in organizational structure.

 

Detail - the temporary assignment of an employee to a different position for a specified period, with the employee returning to regular duties at the end of the detail.

 

Full University furlough - The temporary involuntary placement of all employees in the educational service (including those positions in the education service designated as excepted service), in a non-duty, non-pay status for an equitable period of time not to exceed seventy-two (72) hours within a leave year for the reason set forth in §1134.1.

 

Job Function - Any component of a position, such as a task, duty, or responsibility, the performance of which contributes meaningfully to success and failure in the position.

 

Performance - An employee's accomplishment of assigned duties and responsibilities.

 

Performance Plan - Document developed through the collaborative efforts of the employee and the supervisor at the beginning of the appraisal period which defines the critical functions against which the employee's perform­ance will be appraised, establishes performance standards for those functions, and indicates potential ratings for specific levels of achievement.

 

Performance standards - The expressed measure of level of achievement established by management for the duties and responsibilities of a position or group of positions. Performance standards may include, but are not limited to, elements such as quantity, quality and timeliness.

 

Promotion - the movement of a staff member from one position to another position with greater duties and responsibilities or for which a higher salary grade or rate of pay is designated; or the assignment of duties and responsibilities to the staff member's current position which results in the formal reclassification of the position to a classification for which a higher salary grade or rate is designated.

 

Rating Official - The supervisor of the employee whose performance is to be appraised.

 

Reassignment - the movement of an employee in the same position to a new work location or to a new position within the same pay grade but not necessarily within the same job classification or the same work location.

 

Reclassification - an official change in a position classification due to a change in the duties and responsibilities of the position.

 

Regular appointment - an appointment made to fill a position on a permanent basis. An employee who receives an initial regular appointment serves a probationary period of one (1) year.

 

Sponsored program appointment - an appointment that is made for employees hired on non-appropriated funds that are subject to special terms and conditions in accordance with chapter 17 of this subtitle.

 

Temporary appointment - an appointment that is limited to, and does not exceed, three hundred and sixty-four (364) days.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 37 DCR 5083 (August 3, 1990); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 38 DCR 2150 (April 12, 1991); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 40 DCR 3353 (May 21, 1993).