Unless otherwise indicated in this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Active Pay Status" includes an employee currently receiving compensation from the County of Summit for hours worked or approved leave which includes but is not limited to, vacation leave, sick leave, leave donation, personal leave, compensatory time, precinct election official leave, non-personal court leave, holiday and administrative leave.
(b) "Appointing authority" means the elected office holders as described in Article III, Section 3.03(10) of the County of Summit Charter, who are authorized by law to make appointments to positions.
(c) "Appointment" means the placement of an employee in a position.
(d) "Classified" means the general group of employees of the County not in the "unclassified" service.
(e) "Classification" means a group of positions that involve similar duties and responsibilities, require similar qualifications, and which are properly designated by a common descriptive title indicating the general nature of the work. A classification may include only one position in some circumstances (e.g., Manager).
(f) "County" means the County of Summit, State of Ohio.
(g) "Domestic Partner" means a person that is in a personal relationship between two adults who do all of the following:
(1) Share a residence;
(2) Are in an exclusive relationship and intend to remain so indefinitely;
(3) Neither person is married to or legally separated from another person;
(4) Share responsibility for each other's common welfare; and
(5) Are each at least eighteen (18) years of age and mentally competent and not related to each other to a degree of closeness that would prohibit marriage.
(h) "Demotion" means a move within an appointing authority to a lower category and/or grade in the County of Summit Classification and Compensation Plan which reduces the scope of responsibility and/or salary.
(i) "Commission" means the Human Resource Commission as established under the Charter of the County of Summit.
(j) "HRD" means the Department of Human Resource set forth in the Charter of the County of Summit to carry out duties assigned by the Commission.
(k) "Lateral Reassignment" means a move within an appointing authority between one classification and another classification within the same category and grade in the County of Summit Classification and Compensation Plan.
(l) "Original appointment" means the initial appointment of a candidate that is not employed by the County at the time of the appointment.
(m) "Position" means a group of duties and responsibilities assigned or delegated by competent authority to be performed by one person.
(n) "Promotion" means a move within an appointing authority to a higher category and/or grade in the County of Summit Classification and Compensation Plan which results in an increase in salary and responsibility.
(o) "Seniority" means an employee's continuous service with an appointing authority, provided that such continuous service shall be uninterrupted by any break in service of one (1) year or more. A break in service of one (1) year or more shall result in new seniority date, that begins on the date of return.
(p) "Supervisor" means an individual who has been authorized by the appointing authority to oversee and direct the work of lower level employees on a daily basis.
(q) "Transfer" means a move between appointing authorities within the County of Summit.
(r) "Unclassified" means those positions which are considered "at-will" and are not included in the classified service.
(Ord. 2004-596. Adopted 2-14-05; Ord. 2011-380. Adopted 11-7-11; Ord. 2013-400. Adopted 9-16-13; Ord. 2015-269. Adopted 8-31-15; Ord. 2015-269. Adopted 8-31-15; Ord. 2020-059. Adopted 3-16-20.)