Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3335 - Ohio State University › Chapter 3335-89 - Definitions › Section 3335-89-01 - Definition of terms

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
For the purposes of Chapters 3335-49 to 3335-89 of the
				Administrative Code, the following terms are defined as follows:
(A) "Abolishment" - the elimination of a
			 position due to lack of funds, lack of work, reasons of economy, or a
			 reorganization for efficiency.
(B)
			 "Appointing authority" - the board of trustees for the university has delegated
			 its authority regarding civil service employment matters to the highest
			 administrative official directly overseeing the office of human resources, or
			 their designee.
(C)
								"Audit" - may occur to determine whether an incumbent
			 employee is performing duties associated with their classification, or whether
			 the employee has begun to perform duties associated with another
			 classification.
(D) "Base rate of pay"
			 - the actual salary or wage an employee receives for services rendered within
			 the pay range of the classification. It does not
			 include benefits, shift differential, additional compensation, or other forms
			 of compensation.
(E) "Certified status"
			 - a classified civil service status obtained for a specific classification upon
			 satisfactory completion of the applicable probationary period or, when there is
			 no probationary period, upon completion of one hundred eighty days in the
			 specific classification with satisfactory performance.
(F)
			 "Classification" - common name for a group of positions sufficiently related
			 with respect to duties, responsibilities, authority and qualifications so that
			 the same descriptive classification title and same pay range may be used for
			 each.
(G) "Classification
			 plan" - a system of classifications or series of jobs, with a specification and
			 pay range assignment for each classification.
(H) "Classified civil
			 service" - all positions 
								identified as classified civil service positions, and
			 within the Ohio state university's classified civil service
			 
								job families, and available to
			 employees. Any position not included in this group is not classified
			 civil service.
(I) "Day" - unless
			 otherwise specified, "day" means one calendar day.
(J) "Demotion" -
			 placement of an employee in a classification which has decreased job responsibilities, scope, and impact
			 as evidenced by job title and/or pay range.
(K) "Displace" or
			 "displacement" - the exercise of the procedures outlined in Chapter 3335-81 of
			 the Administrative Code.
(L) "Extended family
			 member" - any one of the following: sister, brother, grandparent, grandchild,
			 mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law,
			 son-in-law, grandparent-in-law, grandchild-in-law, or corresponding relatives
			 of the employee's domestic partner, and any other family members as defined within human
			 resources policies.
(M) "First
			 position" - an individual's first classified civil
			 service position with the university.
(N) "For cause" - a
			 type of termination from employment for one or more of the following reasons:
			 incompetency, inefficiency, dishonesty, use or being under the influence of
			 alcohol or illegal drugs at work or inappropriate use of prescription drugs,
			 immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, neglect
			 of duty, violation of university rules or policies, any other failure of good
			 behavior, any other acts of misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office,
			 or conviction of a felony.
(O) "Full-time
			 equivalency ("FTE")" - an employee's assigned hours per work
			 week divided by forty.
(P) "Immediate family
			 member" - any one of the following:
(1) Spouse
			 or domestic partner;
(2)
			 Biological, adoptive, step, or foster parent;
(3) Individual who stood in loco parentis to
			 an employee when the employee was a child; and
(4) Biological, adopted, step, or foster
			 child; a legal ward; or a child of a person standing in loco
			 parentis.