Code of Maine Rules › 18 - DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES › 389 - BUREAU OF HUMAN RESOURCES › Chapter 1 - PURPOSE, ADOPTION AND AMENDMENT OF RULES AND DEFINITION OF TERMS › Section 389-1-3 - DEFINITION OF TERMS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The following words and terms wherever used in these rules
				  shall have the meaning indicated below:
A. "Agency" means a department, division,
				board, institution, or other branch of the State Service, in which all
				positions are under the same appointing authority.
B. "Allocate" means the assignment of a
				position to a class in the classification schedule as established or
				amended.
C. "Appointing Authority"
				means a person or group of persons empowered by the constitution, by statute,
				or by lawfully delegated authority to make appointments to positions in the
				State Service.
D. "Class" (also
				classification) means a group of positions so sufficiently alike with respect
				to duties, responsibilities and authority that the same descriptive title may
				be used with clarity to designate each such position; the same knowledges,
				skills, and abilities applied, the same process used to recruit, qualify and
				examine persons for each such position; and the same schedule of pay applied
				with equity to each such position.
E. "Classification Plan" means a system of
				identifying and describing the different kinds and levels of work which
				comprise State Service whereby significantly similar positions are grouped
				under a common class title and pay schedule.
F. "Classification Schedule" means the
				listing of unique classes and their designated pay ranges, and any
				amendment/adjustments thereto, resulting from application of the classification
				plan.
G. "Day" means calendar day
				of 8 hours except where otherwise specified in the specific rule.
H. "Demotion" means a change of an employee
				from a position in one class to a position in another class with less
				responsible duties and a lower salary range.
I. "Department" means the Department of
				Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Human Resources, and the
				employees thereof.
J. "Eligible"
				means any person whose name is on an eligible register.
K. "Full-time Employee" means an employee
				normally expected to work at least the standard work week (40 hours) for the
				class and agency.
L. "Intermittent
				Employee" means an employee who is hired from time to time to work irregular
				hours or weeks. Note: See Chapter 2 for a more complete definition.
M. "Limited Period Position" is a position,
				as authorized by the State Budget Officer, of other than project nature which,
				because of budgetary limitations, has a time limit set at the time of
				establishment.
N. "Military Leave"
				means the leave of absence granted to employees entering active duty in the
				armed forces of the State or the United States.
O. "Organization Unit" means a geographic,
				organizational, or other unit of an agency which is approved by the Director of
				Human Resources as a unit for the purposes of employment or layoff, or
				both.
P. "Part-time Employee" means
				an employee working less than the standard work week for the class and agency,
				on regularly scheduled hours per week for the position.
Q. "Permanent Employee" means an employee who
				has been appointed to a position after successfully completing his probationary
				period.
R. "Position" means a group
				of current duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated by competent
				authority, requiring the full-time, part-time, or intermittent employment of
				one person.
S. "Position
				Management" means an objective and documented evaluation of the organizational
				and functional components of an agency or subsection thereof. Evaluation
				considerations include, but are not limited to: overlapping responsibilities,
				layers of supervision, duplication of effort and poor mix of senior,
				journeyman, and junior positions.
T. "Probationary Period" means a working test
				period during which a new employee is required to demonstrate fitness for the
				position to which appointed by actual performance of the duties of the
				position.
U. "Project Position" is
				a position which is restricted to a planned work program to be completed within
				a specified limited period of time and which is not of a seasonal or regularly
				recurring nature.
V. "Promotion"
				means a change of an employee from a position of one class to a position of
				another class with more responsible duties and a higher salary range.
W. "Reallocate" means to alter an allocation
				decision by changing the assignment of a position to one class and reassigning
				it to another class in the Classification Schedule as established or
				amended.
X. 'Regular Appointment"
				means an appointment of an employee without current civil service rights from
				an open competitive register or an appointment to the non-competitive or labor
				division.
Y. "Seasonal Position"
				means a position established for less than full year periods and expected to be
				of a regularly recurring nature.
Z.
				"Substitute Appointment" means an appointment to fill a vacancy created by an
				employee on leave of absence.
AA.
				"Temporary Appointment" means an appointment for a period not to exceed three
				(3) months.
BB. "Transfer" means a
				change by an employee from one position to another position of the same class
				or of another class in the same salary range, usually involving the performance
				of similar duties and requiring essentially the same basic
				qualifications.