D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 6, r. 6-B1100

Current through Register Vol. 71, No. 49, December 6, 2024

Rule 6-B1100 - DEFINITIONS AND APPLICABILITY

1100.1

When used in sections 1100 through 1111 of this chapter, the terms listed below shall have the meanings ascribed:

Act - The District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (D.C. Law 2-139).

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

Career Service - Includes all regular District Service positions in the District of Columbia Government except positions in the Excepted, Executive or Educational Services.

Class of Positions - All positions which are sufficiently similar as to -

(a) Kind or subject matter of work;

(b) Level of difficulty and responsibility; and

(c) The qualification requirements of the work; to warrant similar treatment in personnel and pay administration.

Deputy - An individual who shares the responsibility or serves as alter ego to the Director or principal assistant in managing the total organization.

Educational Employee - An employee of the District of Columbia Board of Education or of The Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia, except persons employed in any of the following types of positions:

(a) Clerical, stenographic or secretarial positions;

(b) Custodial, building maintenance, building engineer, general maintenance or general engineering positions;

(c) Bus drivers and other drivers involved in the transportation of persons; equipment, materials or inventory;

(d) Cooks, dieticians and other positions involved in the direct planning, preparation, service and conditions of preparation and service of food;

(e) Technicians involved in the operation or maintenance of machinery, vehicles, equipment or the processing of materials and inventory; or

(f) Positions the major duties of which consist of the supervision of employees covered in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this definition, provided, however, that this paragraph shall not be deemed to include heads of academic units at the University of the District of Columbia.

Employee - An individual employed in or under an agency.

Executive Service - Includes all subordinate agency heads whom the Mayor is authorized to appoint under Title X of the Act.

Excepted Service - Includes those positions that are incumbered or intended to be incumbered through noncompetitive hiring procedures under Title IX of the Act.

Grade - Includes all classes of positions which, although different with respect to kind or subject matter of work, are sufficiently equivalent as to:

(a) level of difficulty and responsibility; and

(b) level of qualification requirements of the work to warrant their inclusion within one range of rates of basic pay in the District of Columbia Government.

Head - The highest ranking executive official of an agency.

Manager - Generally, an individual employed by an agency in a position, the duties and responsibilities of which influence the policies of the agency.

Personnel Authority - An individual or organization with the authority to administer all or part of a personnel management program as provided in Title IV of the Act.

Position - The work, consisting of the duties and responsibilities, assigned to an employee.

Realignment - An action which affects the internal structure and/or functions of an agency, but which does not constitute a "Reorganization."

Reorganization - That action which results in the transfer of, consolidation of, abolition of, or authorization with respect to functions and hierarchy, between or among agencies, and which affects the structure or structures thereof; which reorganization is subject to adoption by legislative action, including consideration of the District of Columbia Council in accordance with the Governmental Reorganization Act of 1981.

Standard - any criterion, guideline or measure established by appropriate authority for the purpose of making objective comparisons.

Supervisor - an individual having delegated authority to hire, direct, assign, promote, reward, transfer, furlough, lay off, recall, suspend, discipline, or remove employees.

1100.2

Sections 1100 through 1111 of this chapter apply to all persons and positions in the Career and Excepted Services.

D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 6, r. 6-B1100