Alaska Administrative Code › Title 2 - Administration › Chapter 07 - Personnel Rules › Article 20 - General Provisions › 2 AAC 07.999 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this
				  chapter
(1) "appeal" means a permanent
				employee's appeal of a dismissal, demotion, or suspension over 10 consecutive
				working days, or a total suspension over 30 working days in a 12-month
				period;
(2) "appointing authority"
				means the official to whom appointing authority has been assigned or delegated
				under AS
				39.25.020;
(3) "assessment" means a method or device
				used by an appointing authority to determine or evaluate an applicant's
				knowledge, skill, ability, education, or experience in order to fairly predict
				the applicant's satisfactory performance of the duties of the
				position;
(4) "class" or "class of
				positions" means one or more positions sufficiently similar as to duties and
				responsibilities, degree of supervision exercised or required, and as to
				entrance requirements, that the same descriptive title may be used to designate
				them;
(5) "class series" means a
				grouping of two or more classes sharing a common title, and characterized by
				duties that are similar in nature but with different and progressively higher
				degrees of responsibilities;
(6)
				"class specification" is a written statement of duties and responsibilities,
				that are characteristic of a class of positions; "class specification" includes
				the education, experience, knowledge, and ability required to perform the work
				of the class of positions;
(7)
				"classification plan" means the orderly arrangement into classes of all
				positions in the classified and partially exempt services;
(8) "complaint" means an employee's notice to
				the employee's division director of dissatisfaction regarding working
				conditions, the manner of application or failure to apply personnel laws,
				rules, or policies as established or interpreted by the director, disciplinary
				action excluding dismissal, demotion, or suspension over 30 days or over a
				total of 30 working days in a 12-month period, or the allocation of the
				employee's position;
(9)
				"consideration" means an assessment of a candidate during the selection process
				when the appointing authority has obtained enough knowledge of the candidate's
				background in relationship to the job to determine whether or not the candidate
				should be selected, rejected, or given further consideration; methods of
				consideration can range from a review of the candidate's work history, or
				application, to a telephone or in-person interview; the appointing authority
				must be prepared to provide the applicant with the job-related reason for which
				the applicant was not selected;
(10) "demotion" means the movement of an
				employee from one salary range to a lower salary range in the same, or closely
				related class series; under the provisions of
				2 AAC 07.440, demotion applies only to permanent
				employees;
(11) "director" means
				the director of the division of personnel in the Department of
				Administration;
(12) "disabled
				veteran" has the meaning given in
				AS
				39.25.159;
(13) "dismissal" means the involuntary
				separation of a permanent employee from the state service for reasons other
				than layoff;
(14) "domicile" means
				the true and permanent home of a person, from which the person has no present
				intention of moving and to which the person intends to return whenever the
				person is away;
(15) "emergency
				employee" means an employee appointed for a period not to exceed 30 calendar
				days whose appointment was made under conditions requiring immediate action to
				carry on work required in the public interest;
(16) "employee" means a person in the state
				service who is paid a salary or wage and who is
(A) wholly subject to the State Personnel Act
				in AS 39.25 and this chapter (classified employee); or
(B) partially subject to that Act and this
				chapter (partially exempt employee);