New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 7 - WASTEWATER AND WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1.7.1.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Agency"
means any state department, bureau, division, branch or
				administrative group which is under the same employer.
B.
"Anniversary date"
means the
				date of appointment or reemployment and is changed as of the date of promotion,
				demotion, reduction, or transfer. The assignment of an employee to a new
				classification which best represents the job performed by the employee does not
				affect the employee's anniversary date. The director shall resolve disputes
				over how an anniversary date is derived.
C.
"Applicant"
means any person,
				who has applied for a position in the classified service.
D.
"Appointment"
means the
				assumption of job duties by a candidate who was offered and then accepted a
				classified position in a state agency.
E.
"Audit"
means an examination
				or inspection of an agency's personnel and human resources functions and
				activities, including but not limited to personnel transactions, recruitment,
				leave administration, collective bargaining agreement administration, and
				completion of personnel evaluations.
F.
"Board"
means the personnel
				board.
G.
"Break in
				employment"
means any period of time of at least one workday of not
				being in the classified service.
H.
"Candidate"
means any applicant who is on the employment list for
				a position.
I.
"Classified
				service"
means all positions in the executive branch of state government
				which are not exempt by law.
J.
"Classification"
means a job that is occupationally and
				quantifiably distinct.
K.
"Compa-ratio"
means pay expressed as a percentage of the midpoint
				of a pay band.
L.
"Demotion"
means an involuntary downward change for disciplinary
				reasons with a reduction in pay within an employee's pay band or from a
				classified position in one pay band to a classified position in a lower pay
				band with a reduction in pay, and/or removal of supervisory responsibilities
				and pay for disciplinary reasons.
M.
"Director"
means the state
				personnel director.
N.
"Disciplinary action"
means any action taken by an agency to
				influence change in an employee's performance or behavior to the expected
				standard, including letters of reprimand, suspensions, demotions and
				dismissals.
O.
"Dismissal"
means the involuntary separation from
				employment.
P.
"Diversity in
				the workplace"
means an acknowledgment of all people in the workplace
				equally, regardless of their differences. Agencies' management of diversity
				will ensure that efforts are made to adapt to and accept the importance of all
				individuals who fall within a group identified for protection under equal
				employment laws and regulations.
Q.
"Domestic partner"
means two individuals who have shared a common,
				primary residence for at least 12 consecutive months, sign an affidavit of
				domestic partnership, and meet all of the following criteria:
(1) Both domestic partners must be
				unmarried.
(2) Domestic partners
				must have been in a mutually exclusive relationship, intending to do so
				indefinitely, and the relationship is similar to a marriage relationship in the
				State of New Mexico.
(3) Domestic
				partners must meet the age requirements for marriage in New Mexico (18 years of
				age) and be mentally competent to consent to contract.
(4) Domestic partners must not be related by
				blood to the degree prohibited in a legal marriage in the State of New
				Mexico.
(5) Domestic partners must
				be jointly responsible for the common welfare of each other and share financial
				obligations.
(6) Domestic partner
				must not be married or a member of another domestic partnership; nor have been
				so during the past 12 months. If domestic partnership dissolves and the same
				two people want to become partners again, they must once again meet the
				12-month requirements.
(7) Domestic
				partners must provide proof of one of the following: joint mortgage or lease;
				joint ownership of a motor vehicle; joint bank account; joint credit account;
				domestic partner named as beneficiary of life insurance; domestic partner named
				as beneficiary of retirement benefits; domestic partner named as primary
				beneficiary in the employee's will; domestic partner assigned durable property
				or health care power of attorney; or documentation of sharing of household
				expenses by both partners.