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TN Code § 8-30-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-308. Probationary Period of Employment for Preferred Service Employees

  Every person appointed to a position in the preferred service shall be subject to a probationary period of employment. The probationary period shall commence immediately upon appointment and shall continue for such time, not less than one (1) year, as shall be established by the commissioner. At any time during the employee's probationary period the appointing authority may remove the employee if, in the opinion of the appointing authority, the employee's performance or conduct during the probationary period indicates that such employee is unable or unwilling to satisfactorily perform or is not satisfactorily performing the employee's duties, or that the employee's habits, dependability, or conduct do not merit continuance in the service.   During the last month of an employee's probationary period, the appointing authority shall notify the commissioner in writing whether the performance and conduct of the employee have been satisfactory and whether continued employment is recommended.   An employee in the preferred service who accepts another preferred service position within the same state agency shall serve a subsequent probationary period for a time period of not less than one (1) year. An employee serving a subsequent probationary period may appeal a suspension, demotion, or separation from service; provided, that an employee shall not appeal a demotion that returns the employee to the employee's immediately preceding former position.
TN Code § 8-30-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-309. Temporary Appointments

  When an appointing authority desires to fill a position in the preferred service, and the commissioner cannot timely evaluate the list of eligibles for such vacancy, the commissioner may authorize the appointing authority to fill the position by temporary appointment for a period not to exceed six (6) months. A temporary appointee shall hold a position only until an appropriate list has been established, the required evaluation is completed, and the appointment of the preferred service employee begins. No temporary appointment shall be renewed.   An appointing authority may, with the approval of the commissioner, temporarily fill an existing preferred service position, for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days, by utilizing a temporary staffing service having a contract with the state to provide short-term temporaries. This subsection (b) applies only to the utilization of vendor-supplied temporaries.   If the position to be filled is not officially vacant, the appointing authority must obtain the commissioner's approval to overlap the position with another prior to making an appointment.
TN Code § 8-30-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-310. Emergency Appointments

 When an emergency occurs, affecting the ability to fill a position in the preferred service under any other provision of this part, an appointing authority, in order to prevent stoppage of public business or loss or serious inconvenience to the public, may appoint any qualified person to such position with the approval of the commissioner. Any such person shall be employed only during such emergency and for a period not exceeding one hundred twenty (120) days. No such appointment shall be renewed.
TN Code § 8-30-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-311. Unskilled and Custodial Positions

  For positions involving basic clerical, unskilled or semiskilled labor, or domestic, attendant or custodial work, when the character or place of the work makes it impracticable to supply the needs of the service by appointments made in accordance with the procedure prescribed by this part, the commissioner may adopt, or authorize the use of, such other procedures as the commissioner determines to be appropriate in order to meet the needs of the service.   The commissioner may provide input on all contracts with the private sector to perform the functions or jobs listed in subsection (a). The commissioner may be involved in the communications with any employee whose job may be terminated as the result of a contract with a private party.
TN Code § 8-30-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-312. Transfers

  An appointing authority may at any time assign an employee from one position to another position in the same job classification or rank within the same department. Upon making such assignment, the appointing authority shall give written notice of such action and the reasons for such action to the commissioner.   A transfer of an employee from one department to another may be made with the approval of the commissioner and of the appointing authorities. The appointing authority, or authorities, with the approval of the commissioner, shall have authority to make such a transfer for any reason that they may deem to be for the good of the service. Their actions shall not be subject to appeal except as provided in this chapter.   No employee shall be transferred from a position in one class to a position in another class of a higher rank or for which there are substantially dissimilar requirements for appointment, unless the employee is appointed to such latter position after certification of the employee's name from a list of eligibles in accordance with this chapter.   Any change of an employee from a position in one class to a position in a class of a lower rank shall be considered a demotion, except that the employee shall not be considered to have been demoted and shall not be required to serve a period of probation, if the change from a position in one class to a position in a class of a lower rank occurred:  At the employee's request, with the concurrence of the department or agency; or    Because of a change in the organizational structure of the government entity;   Because of the abolishment of a position;   As the result of a reduction in force;   For reasons caused by organizational necessity; or   As a result of compliance with § 8-30-205.
TN Code § 8-30-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-313. Performance Standards and Expected Outcomes — Job Performance Evaluations

  In cooperation with appointing authorities, the commissioner shall establish, and may periodically amend:  The standards of performance for employees;   The expected outcomes for employees; and   A system of job performance evaluations based upon the standards described in subdivisions (a)(1) and (2).     Employee performance standards and expected outcomes must be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant to the strategic objective of the employee's state agency or division, and time sensitive.   Each appointing authority shall, at periodic intervals (but at least annually), make, and report to the commissioner, job performance evaluations for the employees in the appointing authority's department or state agency. Upon request by the commissioner, the appointing authority shall provide the information on which the appointing authority relied in evaluating job performance.   The performance evaluations of state service employees shall not be considered public records under § 10-7-503. Nothing in this subsection (d) shall be construed to limit access to these records by law enforcement agencies, courts, or other governmental agencies performing official functions.   Job performance evaluations may be used as follows:  To determine salary increases and decreases within the limits established by the compensation plan developed under this chapter;   As a factor in making or denying promotions; and   As a means of determining employees:  Who are candidates for promotion or transfer; or   Who, because of a low job performance evaluation, are candidates for demotion, dismissal or reduction in force.       [Deleted by 2020 amendment.]   In the process of establishing the system of job performance evaluations, the department shall afford representatives of recognized employee groups an opportunity to present facts, views or arguments related to the proposed system of job performance evaluations.
TN Code § 8-30-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-315. Employee Suspension for Disciplinary Purposes

 An appointing authority may suspend without pay an employee, for disciplinary purposes, for such length of time as the authority considers appropriate, not exceeding thirty (30) days in any twelve-month period. With the approval of the commissioner, an employee may be suspended for a longer period pending the appeal or the processing of an appeal in accordance with this chapter.
TN Code § 8-30-316 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-316. Dismissal, Demotion or Suspension for Cause

  An employee in the preferred service who has successfully completed a probationary period becomes a preferred service employee and may be dismissed, demoted, or suspended for cause. The dismissal of a preferred service employee will take effect immediately after the appointing authority gives notice to such employee and files a written statement with the commissioner. The employee shall continue to receive compensation for ten (10) days following the date of dismissal.   An appointing authority may dismiss any employee when the authority determines that the good of the service will be served thereby. Whenever an employee is dismissed “for the good of the service,” the notice of termination must outline the reasons for dismissal.   If an employee in state service willfully refuses or fails to appear before any legislative committee, or any officer, board or body authorized to conduct any hearing or inquiry, the employee shall forfeit the employee's position and shall not be eligible for appointment to any position in state service.   Any employee who is absent from duty for more than three (3) consecutive work days without giving prior written or electronic notice to the appointing authority or appropriate manager that specifies the reason for such absence, and without securing permission to be on leave, or who fails to report for duty or to the immediate supervisor or the appointing authority within two (2) work days after the expiration of any authorized leave of absence, is considered as having resigned not in good standing, absent extenuating circumstances beyond the control of the employee causing the employee's absence or preventing the employee's return. An employee deemed to have resigned in accordance with these circumstances shall have the right to appeal such action through the appeal procedure described herein.   The commissioner may dismiss an employee if the commissioner finds that the employee was appointed as a result of fraud.   A preferred service employee is entitled to appeal a dismissal, demotion, or suspension as provided in § 8-30-318.   A notice of termination shall include the reason for the termination in clear and concise language and shall state the facts that led to the termination.
TN Code § 8-30-317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-317. Report on Promotions and Other Employment Actions

 The department of human resources and the department of finance and administration shall report electronically each month to the finance and ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives and the fiscal review committee on bona fide employee promotions, showing clearly by department the names and the increases in pay as a result of such promotions. The departments shall also furnish an electronic copy of the report to the speakers of the senate and house of representatives and upon request to any member of the general assembly. The report shall also include employee transfers, dismissals, terminations, demotions, separations, positions reclassified from the preferred service to the executive service, and position abolishments showing clearly by department the name and title of each employee affected and such employee's position after such action.
TN Code § 8-30-319 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-319. Supervisor's Responsibilities — Disciplinary Actions

  The supervisor is responsible for maintaining the proper job performance level, conduct, and discipline of the employees under the supervisor's supervision. When corrective action is necessary, the supervisor should administer disciplinary action at the step appropriate to the infraction, conduct, or performance, as determined by the supervisor.   Upon written application by the employee, any written warning or written follow-up to an oral warning, which has been issued to an employee, shall be expunged from the employee's personnel file after a period of two (2) years; provided, that the employee has had no further disciplinary actions with respect to the same area of performance, conduct, and discipline.   Any written warning or written follow-up to an oral warning that has been issued to an employee is void and of no effect after a period of two (2) years if the employee has not been the subject of further disciplinary action with respect to the same area of performance, conduct, or discipline within the two-year period.
TN Code § 8-30-320 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 3 - State Employment|§ 8-30-320. Calculation of Time With Respect to Proceedings Against State Employees

 For purposes of calculating time with respect to any proceedings against state employees under this part, time must be counted by calendar days, excluding holidays.
TN Code § 8-30-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 4 - Administration of Chapter|§ 8-30-401. Services to Municipalities and Other Political Subdivisions

 The commissioner may enter into agreements with any municipality or political subdivision of the state to furnish services and facilities of the department to such municipality or political subdivision in the administration of its personnel. Any such agreement shall provide for the reimbursement to the state of the reasonable cost of the services and facilities furnished, as determined by the commissioner. All municipalities and political subdivisions of the state are authorized to enter into such agreements.
TN Code § 8-30-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 4 - Administration of Chapter|§ 8-30-402. Reasonable Use of Public Buildings

 All officers and employees of the state and of municipalities and political subdivisions of the state shall allow the department the reasonable use of public buildings under their control for conducting an assessment, hearing or investigation authorized by this part or part 3 of this chapter. The department shall pay to a municipality or political subdivision the reasonable cost of any such facilities furnished by it.
TN Code § 8-30-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 4 - Administration of Chapter|§ 8-30-403. Corrupt Practices

  No person shall make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating or report with regard to any assessment, certification or appointment made under any provision of this chapter, or in any manner commit or attempt to commit any fraud preventing the impartial execution of this chapter.   No person shall, directly or indirectly, give, render, pay, offer, solicit or accept any money, service or other valuable consideration for or on account of any appointment, proposed appointment, promotion or proposed promotion to, or any advantage in, a position in the state service.   No employee of the department, examiner, or other person shall defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in such person's right to an assessment, eligibility, certification or appointment under this chapter, or furnish to any person any special or secret information, for the purpose of affecting the rights or prospects of any person with respect to employment in the preferred service.
TN Code § 8-30-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 4 - Administration of Chapter|§ 8-30-404. Compliance With Conditions of Grants Permitted

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the commissioner, in the commissioner's discretion, from permitting any department in state service from complying with any condition or limitation included in, or affecting any grant from, the federal government or other public or private source.
TN Code § 8-30-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 4 - Administration of Chapter|§ 8-30-405. Outside Employment

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a state employee from engaging in outside employment. Such outside employment shall not adversely affect the employee's performance with the state, create a conflict of interest between such additional employment, or conflict with the regular employment schedule of the employee.
TN Code § 8-30-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 4 - Administration of Chapter|§ 8-30-406. Hours of Work, Attendance, and Leaves of Absence

 The rules shall provide for the hours of work, holidays, attendance regulations and leaves of absence in state service. They may contain provisions for annual, sick, and special leaves of absence, with or without pay.
TN Code § 8-30-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - State Service|Part 4 - Administration of Chapter|§ 8-30-407. Computation of Periods of Time

 In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by this chapter, the date of the act or event after which the designated period of time begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the period so computed shall be included, unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday, or a legal holiday as defined in § 15-1-101, or, when the act to be done is the filing of a paper, a day on which the office where the paper to be filed is closed or on which weather or other conditions have made the office inaccessible, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is not one of the aforementioned days. When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than eleven (11) days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
TN Code § 8-34-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 34 - Retirement—generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 8-34-102. Masculine Pronoun

 The masculine pronoun wherever used includes the feminine.
TN Code § 8-34-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 34 - Retirement—generally|Part 2 - Administration|§ 8-34-201. Establishment of System

  A retirement system is established and placed under the management of the board of trustees, for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits under the provisions of Chapters 34 37 of this title. The retirement system so created shall be established as of July 1, 1972.   The retirement system is established as a qualified defined benefit plan under Chapters 34 37 of this title, as amended, pursuant to §§ 401(a) and 414(d) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. §§ 401(a) and 414(d)), or such other provision of the Internal Revenue Code as applicable, and applicable United States department of the treasury regulations and other guidance.
TN Code § 8-34-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 34 - Retirement—generally|Part 2 - Administration|§ 8-34-202. Name — Powers and Duties Generally

 It shall have the powers, privileges and immunities of a corporation and shall be known as the “Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System,” and by such name all of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, and all of its cash and securities and other property held in trust for the purpose for which received.
TN Code § 8-34-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 34 - Retirement—generally|Part 2 - Administration|§ 8-34-203. Application of Other Laws

 No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of this state or any political subdivision thereof pensions or retirement benefits for members or beneficiaries of the retirement system shall apply to such members or beneficiaries of the retirement system except Title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 401-425), and chapter 25, part 3 of this title. Further, no other provision of law in any other statute which bestows membership in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system from or after May 2, 2011, shall apply unless such membership provision is codified in chapter 35 of this title.
TN Code § 8-34-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 34 - Retirement—generally|Part 2 - Administration|§ 8-34-204. Amendment or Repeal of Laws Not to Diminish or Annul Acquired Rights

 Every provision of Chapters 34 37 of this title shall be subject to amendment or repeal by any session of the general assembly; provided, that no such amendment or repeal shall diminish or annul, in any respect, any right acquired by a member or beneficiary under Chapters 34 37 of this title.
TN Code § 8-34-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 34 - Retirement—generally|Part 2 - Administration|§ 8-34-205. Penalty for Fraud

 Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record or records of the retirement system, commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 8-34-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 34 - Retirement—generally|Part 2 - Administration|§ 8-34-207. Electronic Form and Document Filing — Electronic Signatures

  Notwithstanding § 8-36-121 or any other law to the contrary, the board of trustees may implement procedures for the filing of membership forms, beneficiary designations, retirement applications and any other retirement system forms and documents by electronic means and to authorize electronic signatures in the signing of such forms and documents.   If a form or document is filed by electronic means pursuant to this section, the form or document and the electronic signature of the person who executes the same shall be binding on all persons and shall have the same force and effect as if the signature had been handwritten in ink on a printed form.   For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:  “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities;   “Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document.