A. All new employees shall be placed on probation for 180 days. An employee on probation may be dismissed at the discretion of the department director or his/her designee. No employee on probation shall receive a salary/wage increase, promotion, or be eligible to use sick leave, a personal holiday or annual leave, although annual and sick leave is accumulated during the probational period.
B. All new employees on probation shall have a performance evaluation at the end of a ninety- day period and at the end of a one-hundred-fifty-day period and prior to 180 days, such performance evaluation to be conducted by the immediate supervisor and the department director.
C. An unsatisfactory evaluation may be a basis for termination of an employee on probation.
This is not to be construed that a probationary employee may not be dismissed prior to the first ninety-day evaluation or any time during the probationary period as set forth herein. This evaluation becomes a part of the employee's personnel record.