(A) (1) When employment is offered to an applicant, a pre-employment physical including drug testing shall be completed. The expense associated with this physical and drug testing shall be paid by the county with the physician being designated by the county.
(2) Failure of persons to satisfactorily complete the prescribed physical and lab tests as certified by the physician on the examination form will result in the applicant not being hired. Should the applicant wish to challenge the results, he or she may do so by asking for a second opinion from a specialist by or agreed to by the physician.
(3) All costs incurred to obtain and provide the second opinion will be borne by the applicant.
(4) Consultation between person providing the opinion and the final recommendation will be provided to the county and the county’s decision will be made at that time.
(B) (1) Applicants hired will have the examination form filed in the employee’s personnel file which will be retained by the office holder or department head.
(2) Applicants who are not hired will have the examination form placed on file with the application form which will be retained by the county’s Executive Administrative Assistant.
(3) Applicants may apply for other county positions using the filed examination for a one-year period. The county has the right of choice to use the on file examination or require an additional examination at the expense of the county.
(Ord. passed 11-28-2011)