The incumbents of permanent positions who have held such positions for a period of at least six months continuously next preceding the time that a civil service system is first adopted shall be continued in their positions as if appointed thereto after examination and certification from a list of eligibles, and shall be governed thereafter by this division and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto but shall not be subject to the six months’ probation period.
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Section § 12131
If an employee has had a permanent position for at least six months before a civil service system is implemented, they can stay in their job without having to pass a probationary period. It's as if they were hired through the usual process of exams and screenings. However, they'll still need to follow the new civil service rules and regulations.
permanent positions civil service system probation period exemption
Section § 12132
If a district takes over existing facilities from a public utility company, whether it's through buying or other means, the employees who worked at those facilities can be given jobs within the district without having to go through the usual hiring tests. These employees won't have to complete a six-month probation period like other new hires but will follow all other district civil service rules.
Whenever any district acquires existing facilities from a publicly or privately owned public utility, whether by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, any or all of the officers or employees of such public utility whose duties pertained to the facilities acquired may be appointed to positions in the district’s civil service system without examination and certification from a list of eligibles and shall be governed thereafter by this division and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto but shall not be subject to the six months’ probation period.
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Section § 12133
If a district adopts a civil service system while an employee is on a military leave of absence, the employee must be reinstated to a similar or the same job upon returning. They will have a status as if they passed a hiring examination, following the civil service rules. However, if they held their job for at least six months before their leave, they won't need to go through a six-month probationary period.
If a civil service system is adopted for a district during the period of a leave of absence granted under Section 395.4 of the Military and Veterans Code or similar legislation, the officer or employee shall, on the termination of his leave of absence, be restored to a position in the district’s civil service system wherein he shall have the same or equivalent status as of the last working day before his leave of absence began. The officer or employee shall hold that position as if appointed thereto after examination and certification from a list of eligibles, and shall be governed thereafter by the rules and regulations of the civil service system, except that if such officer or employee had held a permanent position with the district for a period of six months continuously next preceding the beginning of his leave of absence, he shall not be subject to the six months’ probation period.
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Section § 12134
This law outlines what happens when a district takes over facilities from a public utility. If an officer or employee of the utility left their position to join the military under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, they have a right to a permanent job with the district's civil service, as if they were returning to their old utility job according to the military service law.
It also states that other employees in the district can be moved or laid off to make room for these returning workers.
Whenever a district acquires existing facilities from a public utility, whether by proceedings in eminent domain or otherwise, any officer or employee of the public utility who left a permanent position with such utility pertaining principally to the facilities acquired in order to perform training and service under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 shall be entitled to be appointed to a position with permanent status in the district’s civil service under the same conditions as would have governed his right to reinstatement with the public utility under Section 8 (b) of that act if the district had not acquired those facilities.
No civil service status acquired by other officers or employees of the district shall prevent their removal by layoff or transfer from positions to which reinstatement is provided for in this section.
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