The following definitions may be updated, revised, added to or deleted from by the Director of Human Resources, subject to review by and approval of the City Manager. As used in this chapter:
(1) "Anniversary date" means the date on which an employee commences employment with the City as a full-time permanent employee or the date of such employee's latest promotion.
(2) "Job classification" means a group of positions sufficiently alike in duties, authority and responsibilities to justify the same title, qualifications and pay scale.
(3) "Classification Plan" means a listing of the positions in the City Government group by job classification.
(4) "Compensation" means monetary exchange for services rendered to the City by an employee, including longevity pay and educational incentive.
(5) "Compensatory time" means time off the job afforded overtime exempt, non-represented and/or union employees, according to contract provisions for time worked beyond forty hours per week.
(6) "Demotion" means a change in employment status from a position in one job classification to a position in another job classification having a lower maximum salary limit than the original job classification.
(7) "Department head" means an employee of the City in charge of an established City department and the following officers of the City: the City Manager, the City Attorney, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, the City Assessor, the Revenue Services Director, the Income Tax Administrator, the Police Chief, the Fire Chief, and the Director of Public Works.
(8) "Discipline" means corrective action taken by supervisory personnel to change or control the behavior of subordinate employees.
(9) "Dismissal" means permanent separation from City service for inefficiency, misconduct, repeated infractions of the rules or other just cause.
(10) "Division head" means an employee of the City in charge of an established City division.
(11) "Employee" means a person in the employ of the City who is covered by the provisions of this Title, in whole or in part.
(12) "Employee organization" means any formally recognized employee group engaged in collective bargaining with the City which results in a written contract.
(13) "Employee performance report" means a report form filled out by the immediate supervisor of an employee rating the employee's quantity and quality of work and work attitudes.
(14) "Final settlement" means a review by the Finance Department of an expense report filed by an employee to determine if the City owes money to the employee or if the employee owes money to the City.
(15) "Grievance" means any employee complaint, including, but not limited to, an allegation that a provision of this Administration Code has been violated.
(16) "Handicapped person" means anyone who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such impairment or is regarded as having such impairment.
(17) "Immediate family" means a child, parent, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild or step-child who has resided in the home with an employee for a continuous period of six or more months or a current spouse, current mother-in-law or current father-in-law of an employee.
(18) "Layoff" means the temporary or permanent separation of an employee as the result of the abolishment of the position or the reduction of work.
(19) "Metropolitan area" includes the corporate limits of the City of Battle Creek, the corporate limits of the City of Springfield and the Townships of Bedford, Emmett, Leroy, Newton and Pennfield.
(20) "Narcotics" means substances defined as narcotic by State and/or Federal regulations and not prescribed by a qualified physician.
(21) "Nonrepresented employees" means employees who are not represented by an employee organization.
(22) "Overtime" means time worked beyond forty hours per week, except in the case of fire-fighters, by hourly employees for which they can expect time and one-half their hourly rate of pay.
(23) "Overtime exempt" means employees who are not granted overtime pay for hours worked in excess of forty hours per week.
(24) "Permanent full-time employee" means an employee who is scheduled to work the standard work week of a department, who holds title to a permanent position and whose employment is expected to continue in duration.
(25) "Position" means a group of duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated by the City Manager requiring a full-time or part-time employee.
(26) "Probationary employee" means an employee who has not yet completed the required probationary period.
(27) "Probation" means a working test of the abilities of an employee to carry out the responsibilities of a position.
(28) "Promotion" means a change of employment from one job classification to another job classification which has a higher maximum salary rate.
(29) "Qualified handicapped person" means a person who, with reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential function of the job in question.
(30) "Residency" means maintenance of a permanent and bona fide residence within the corporate limits of the City or another given area.
(31) "Seasonal employee" means an employee appointed for a limited period of time, especially one hired for a specific season of the year.
(32) "Semester" means a fifteen or more week period.
(33) "Service date" means the anniversary date of continuing employment with the City as a full-time permanent employee.
(34) "Suspension" means temporary separation from City service without pay for disciplinary reasons.
(35) "Temporary employee" means one who is appointed for a period of six months or less and who does not hold title to a position.
(36) "Vacancy" means a position duly created by the City Commission, established in the budget and not currently occupied by an incumbent.
(37) "Verbal reprimand" means a verbal rebuke given to an employee by a supervisor for an infraction of the rules.
(38) "Written reprimand" means a written statement prepared by an employee's supervisor stating an infraction of the rules by the employee and providing pertinent information about the infraction.
(Ord. 14-78. Passed 11-28-78; Ord. 4-94. Passed 3-1-94; Ord. 07-2023. Passed 8-1- 23.)