“Appointing authority” means the City Manager or other delegated authority who is empowered to appoint or remove employees of the department over which he has jurisdiction, subject to these rules;

“Class” means a position or group of positions having similar duties and responsibilities, requiring similar qualifications, which can be properly designated by one title indicative of the nature of the work and which carry the same salary range;

“Continuous service” means employment in the City service as a regular or probationary employee which is uninterrupted except for authorized leave of absence or separation due to layoff; however, time lost due to layoff shall not be included in the determination of length of continuous service;

“Demotion” means the assignment of an employee to a position in a lower class in the same occupational series in the City service, having a lower minimum and maximum salary than the position from which the assignment is made;

“Department head” means an officer or employee designated by the City Manager to be the head of a department;

“Employee” means a person occupying a position and who is paid a salary or wage for services rendered;

“Grievance” means a dispute between an employee and his supervisor arising out of a belief on the part of the employee that he is being treated unfairly in regard to his employment or the conditions of his employment; a complaint;

“Position” means a group of current duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated by competent authority, requiring the full-time or part-time services of an employee;

“Probationary employee” means any employee who is serving his/her probationary period of six months of continuous service prior to being appointed as a regular employee of the City. “Probationary period” as used in PMC 2.105.550 refers to the time an employee’s salary is at the entrance level and does not affect the status of being a probationary employee as used elsewhere in this code.

“Promotion” means the assignment of an employee to a position in a higher class in the same occupational series in the City service, having a higher minimum and maximum salary than the position from which assignment is made;

“Provisional employee” means any employee filling a position without competition pending the establishment of an employment list;

“Regular employee” means any employee in the classified city service who has been appointed after serving a probationary period to a position established by appropriate legislative action and normally involving continuous year-round service;

“Relocation” means an employee transferred to another class at his volition or as a result of a reduction in force;

“Temporary appointment” means any seasonal, limited-term or emergency appointment;

“Temporary employee” means any seasonal, limited term or emergency employee;

“Trainee” means a temporary employee. This position is to permit the City to hire an employee for training toward a specialized permanent position;

“Transfer” means the assignment of an employee from one position to another position in another division or department having similar duties and carrying the same minimum and maximum salary as the position from which assignment is made. [Ord. 3948, 2009; Ord. 2024 § 4, 1979; Ord. 1458 § 1, 1971; Ord. 1306 § 3-20, 1968; Code 1970 § 2.42.030.]