SECTIONS 18900-18929.96 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 18900-18929.96

18900. (a) Eligible lists shall be established as a result of free
competitive examinations open to persons who lawfully may be
appointed to any position within the class for which these
examinations are held and who meet the minimum qualifications
requisite to the performance of the duties of that position as
prescribed by the specifications for the class or by board rule.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the board may limit the size
of candidate groups in entry-level and nonpromotional examinations
when doing so would be in the best interest of the state and
effective competition can occur among a smaller number of applicants.

18900.5. For purposes of this chapter, "designated appointing power"
means an appointing power designated by the executive officer
pursuant to Section 18654.

18900.6. (a) The board may authorize the use of skills-based
certification for information technology classifications if all of
the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) There is a job analysis that meets the standards outlined in
the State Personnel Board selection manual.
(2) The class is used on a service wide basis.
(3) The class is broad and includes a number of distinct
assignments.
(4) It is in the best interest of the state to use skills-based
certification.
(b) For purposes of this section, "skills-based certification"
means the creation of a unique certification list for each vacancy
within a class. Skills-based certification is created by weighting
the scores attained by competitors of all measured knowledge, skills,
and abilities to reflect their relative importance to the job, as
identified by a job analysis for each vacancy. Skills-based
certification shall replace the single eligible list for a
classification with an unique list of eligible individuals for each
vacancy. Skills-based certification shall determine the order of
individuals on a certification list; it shall not affect the rules
for using certification lists.
(c) The board shall also promulgate regulations specifying how
skills-based certification shall be implemented. Among other things,
these regulations shall include provisions to ensure fairness to all
candidates and prevent improper manipulation.

18901. (a) The board may remove all names from open and promotional
eligible lists after they have remained thereon for more than one
year from the date of the adoption of the lists that created their
eligibility, and shall remove all names from lists of eligibles not
later than four years after the adoption of the lists that created
their eligibility.
Whenever an open or a promotional eligible list has fewer than
three names of persons who are willing to accept employment, all
names on the list may be removed even though one year has not elapsed
from the date of the adoption of the list.
(b) When a list of eligibles becomes exhausted for temporary or
permanent employment before the legal expiration of the list, and a
new list of eligibles for the same class is created by examination to
supply the demands of the service, such new list shall become a part
of the list of eligibles to be certified to the positions covered by
the list. Those holding places on the prior list shall be given
preference for appointment until such time as the prior list may
automatically expire or all names are removed therefrom by action of
the board. When the prior list has expired by reason of limitation of
time, or the names have been removed therefrom by order of the
board, then certification shall be made solely from the latter list.
(c) The board or a designated appointing power shall include in
the announcement of any examination that the list of eligibles
secured thereby will expire not less than one but less than four
years after the adoption of such list.
(d) The board or a designated appointing power may make changes in
its records to correct clerical errors both before and after the
announcement of an eligible list; provided, that any changes of rank,
or addition or subtraction of names, made on lists of eligibles
because of clerical errors or reratings, shall not change the date of
the adoption of such lists, nor give to any persons the right to
claim beginning date of eligibility other than the date of the
adoption of the original eligible list that created their
eligibility.

18901.5. Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 18901, the
board may authorize the retention of eligibles on an employment list
for an indefinite period of time based on the following factors:
(a) The number of names remaining on the list in relation to the
anticipated number of vacancies.
(b) The qualifications of the eligibles.
(c) The gender, ethnic, and disability composition of the
eligibles remaining on the list.
(d) The lack of unreasonable denial of a competitive opportunity
for potential applicants.
(e) The availability of alternative appointment options.
(f) The modifications that have been made in the duties,
responsibilities, and qualifications in the class specifications
since the establishment of the eligible list.

18902. The board may divide the state into districts and
departments and establish district eligible lists and departmental
eligible lists therefor. A person on an eligible list or a
departmental eligible list may be included in any other eligible or
departmental eligible list on which he or she indicates a desire to
be placed, when in the judgment of the board the best interests of
the state are served thereby.

18903. (a) For each class there shall be maintained a general
reemployment list consisting of the names of all persons who have
occupied positions with probationary or permanent status in the class
and who have been legally laid off or demoted in lieu of layoff.
(b) Within one year from the date of his or her resignation in
good standing, or his or her voluntary demotion, the name of an
employee who had probationary or permanent status may be placed on
the general reemployment list with the consent of the appointing
power and the board. The general reemployment list may also contain
the names of persons placed thereon by the board in accordance with
other provisions of this part.

18904. For each class there shall be maintained a separate
departmental reemployment list within a given state agency, which
shall consist of the names of persons on the general reemployment
list but employed in that state agency at the time of separation.
There shall also be maintained a separate subdivisional reemployment
list within a given state agency which shall consist of the names of
persons employed in a subdivision of a state agency at the time of
separation if subdivisions for that state agency have been set up
with the approval of the Department of Personnel Administration for
layoff purposes.

18905. The order in which names appear on reemployment lists shall
be determined by the relative order of the scores determined as for
layoff in accordance with Section 19997.3 and Department of Personnel
Administration rules.

18906. Any name, after a period of five consecutive years, shall be
removed from the re-employment lists for the class unless the period
is extended by action of the board.

18929.96. (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2011-12 fiscal
year, if the 2011-12 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2011, for
the memoranda of understanding entered into between the state
employer and State Bargaining Unit 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, or 21
(each effective July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2013, inclusive), there is
hereby continuously appropriated to the Controller from the General
Fund, unallocated special funds, including, but not limited to,
federal funds and unallocated nongovernmental cost funds, and any
other fund from which state employees are compensated, the amount
necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to
state employees covered by the above memoranda of understanding until
the 2011-12 Budget Act is enacted. The Controller may expend an
amount no greater than necessary to enable the Controller to
compensate state employees covered by the above memoranda of
understanding for work performed between July 1, 2011, of the 2011-12
fiscal year and the enactment of the 2011-12 Budget Act.
(b) If the memoranda of understanding entered into between the
state employer and State Bargaining Unit 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20,
or 21 (each effective July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2013, inclusive), are
in effect and approved by the Legislature, the compensation and
contribution for employee benefits for state employees represented by
these bargaining units shall be at a rate consistent with the
applicable memorandum of understanding referenced above.
(c) Expenditures related to any warrant drawn pursuant to
subdivision (a) are not augmentations to the expenditure authority of
a department. Upon the enactment of the 2011-12 Budget Act, these
expenditures shall be subsumed by the expenditure authority approved
in the 2011-12 Budget Act for each affected department.
(d) This section shall only apply to an employee covered by the
terms of the State Bargaining Unit 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, or 21
memoranda of understanding (each effective July 1, 2010, to July 1,
2013, inclusive). Notwithstanding Section 3517.8, this section shall
not apply after the term of the memorandum of understanding has
expired. For purposes of this section, the memorandum of
understanding for each unit expires on July 1, 2013.