65 ILCS 5/10-1-14
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 10 - Employees And Employment

 (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-14)Sec. 10-1-14. The head of the department or office in which a  position classified under this Division 1 is to be filled shall notify  the commission of that fact, and the commission shall certify to the  appointing officer the name and address of the candidate standing  highest upon the register for the class or grade to which the position  belongs. However, in cases of laborers where a choice by competition is  impracticable, the commission may provide by its rules that the  selections shall be made by lot from among those candidates proved fit  by examination, but laborers who have previously been in the service and  were removed because their services were no longer required, shall be  preferred, and be reinstated before other laborers are given positions,  preference being given to those who have had the longest term of  service, and laborers in the employ of the municipality on July 1, 1949,  who, as of such date, have been employed under temporary authority for 3  years or more or during parts of 3 or more calendar years, shall be  preferred also, and shall be placed upon the register for such positions  without examination and shall be certified before other laborers are  given positions, preference being given to those laborers under  temporary authority who have had the longest term of service in such  positions. In making such certification, sex shall be disregarded.  The appointing officer shall notify the commission  of each position to be filled, separately, and shall fill such place by  the appointment of the person certified to him or her by the commission  therefor. Original appointment shall be on probation for a period not to  exceed 6 months to be fixed by the rules but all time spent in attending  training schools and seminars, except on-the-job training  conducted by local Fire Department personnel, shall  be excluded in calculating the probation period; provided that in  municipalities with a population of more than 500,000 inhabitants,  original appointment to the police department shall be on probation for  a period not to exceed 9 months to be fixed by the rules of the  department. The commission may strike off names of candidates from the  register after they have remained thereon more than 2 years. At or  before the expiration of the period of probation, the head of the  department or office in which a candidate is employed may, by and with  the consent of the commission, discharge him or her upon assigning in writing  his or her reason therefor to the commission. If he or she is  not then discharged, his or her  appointment shall be deemed complete. To prevent the stoppage of public  business, or to meet extraordinary exigencies, the head of any  department or office may, with the approval of the commission, make  temporary appointment to remain in force not exceeding 120 days, and  only until regular appointments under the provisions of this Division 1  can be made. In any municipal fire department that employs full-time firefighters and is subject to a collective bargaining agreement, a person who has not qualified for regular appointment under the provisions of this Division 1 shall not be used as a temporary or permanent substitute for classified members of a municipality's fire department or for regular appointment as a classified member of a municipality's fire department unless mutually agreed to by the employee's certified bargaining agent. Such agreement shall be considered a permissive subject of bargaining.  Municipal fire departments covered by the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly that are using non-certificated employees as substitutes immediately prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly may, by mutual agreement with the certified bargaining agent, continue the existing practice or a modified practice and that agreement shall be considered a permissive subject of bargaining.  A home rule unit may not regulate the hiring of temporary or substitute members of the municipality's fire department in a manner that is inconsistent with this Section.  This Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.           (Source: P.A. 95-490, eff. 6-1-08.)