§ 6.02. Qualifications for promotional examination.

A.

In addition to meeting the requirements of Rule 6.01, an applicant for an interdepartmental promotional examination must be a permanent county employee, and for a departmental promotional examination must in addition have status in the department specified. The director of personnel may also allow the following to compete in promotional examinations whenever such action is deemed necessary in order to meet the needs of county service:

1.

Probationary employees may be allowed to compete in promotional examinations, provided that they are not appointed until they have completed their probationary periods.

2.

Recurrent or temporary employees who have completed at least 120 working days of satisfactory service as recurrent or temporary employees may be allowed to compete in promotional examinations for permanent appointments to the class in which they have status or any lower-level class. Additionally, recurrent employees meeting the above conditions may compete in promotional examinations for higher-level recurrent positions.

3.

Enrollees in training programs approved by the director of personnel may be allowed to compete in promotional examinations for permanent appointment to the classes for which they have been prepared.

B.

A qualified employee of a district having a civil service governed ex officio by the board of supervisors may participate in interdepartmental promotional examinations for positions in the classified service of the county during such time as qualified county employees are entitled to participate in promotional examinations and to be certified for and appointed to positions in the classified service of such districts.

(Ord. 88-0020 § 1 (part), 1988.)