§ 3.04.010. Title and definitions.

This chapter shall be known as "The Riverside County Salary Ordinance". For the purpose of this chapter, words and phrases are defined as follows:

A.

"Appointed officers" shall mean the persons appointed or employed by the board of supervisors or otherwise as the principal employee of a department or agency in the county government, or of the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District or the Riverside County Regional Park & Open-Space District, which districts for the purposes of this chapter and resolutions hereunder shall be deemed the equivalent of departments of the county government, except that references in this ordinance or said resolutions to the county shall mean such districts when the context so requires.

B.

"County officers" shall mean the officers designated as such by or pursuant to the law of the State of California.

C.

"Demotion" shall mean a change of employment without intervening loss of working days from a position allocated to a given salary plan and grade to a position of a different class allocated to a lower plan and grade, whether in the same or a different department.

D.

"Employees" shall mean all persons employed by the County of Riverside or the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, or the Riverside County Regional Park & Open-Space District, other than officers.

E.

"Full time employee" shall mean employees whose positions require the number of hours usual or prescribed for normal permanent county employment. All positions shall be full time unless otherwise designated or unless the compensation is fixed upon the basis of part-time work.

F.

"Holiday" or "paid holiday" shall mean any day on which county offices are not open for business, in accordance with county ordinance, other than Saturday or Sunday.

G.

"Officers" shall mean all "county officers", and "appointed officers" as herein defined, except where the natural construction of this chapter otherwise indicates: "officer" is the equivalent of "agency/department head".

H.

"Part-time employees" shall mean employees in positions which are designated part-time or for which compensation is fixed upon a basis of part-time work.

I.

"Pay period" shall mean fourteen (14) calendar days from Thursday (starting at midnight) through and including the second Wednesday thereafter, and refers to the period for computing compensation due for all normal working shifts ending during that period.

J.

"Permanent employee" shall mean a regular or seasonal employee who has completed the initial probationary period in a position, not including any incumbent of an At-Will position.

K.

"Physician", and designations of other positions herein which require a license to practice medicine or surgery, including specialties, shall mean and be equivalent to the designation of county physician as used in state law.

L.

"Position" shall mean any office or employment to which a group of duties and responsibilities are assigned or delegated by competent authority, the performance of which requires the full time or part-time employment of one person unless permission is granted for job sharing.

M.

"Probationary employee" shall mean a regular or seasonal employee who has not completed:

1.

The required initial probationary period in a paid status in a position following initial employment; or

2.

The required probationary period in a paid status in a position to which he/she has been promoted, transferred, or demoted following completion of the initial probationary period.

N.

"Promotion" shall mean a change of employment without intervening loss of working days from a position allocated to a given salary plan and grade to a position of a different class allocated to a higher grade whether in the same or different agency/department. The appointment of an employee to a position allocated to a higher salary plan and grade because of professional registration achieved by the incumbent shall not be deemed a promotion but a change in salary allocation.

O.

"Reclassification" shall mean the reallocation of an incumbent within a filled position to a different class by a change of title and class specification, but does not necessarily involve a change of the salary plan and/or grade.

P.

"Regular employee" shall mean a holder of a regular position.

Q.

"Regular position" shall mean a position established by this chapter on an ongoing basis, as distinct from a seasonal or a temporary position.

R.

"Retire", "retired", and "retirement" shall mean receiving a pension through the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) pursuant to the California Public Employees' Retirement Law (California Government Code (Title 2, Division 5)).

S.

"Seasonal employees" shall mean employees whose employment is not continuous but is regularly recurrent in the same capacity because of particular functions which occur periodically each year; such employment may be permanent, but of an intermittent nature.

T.

"Temporary employee" shall mean an employee who is not a regular or seasonal employee.

U.

"Transfer" shall mean a change of employment without intervening loss of working days from a position allocated to a given salary plan and grade to a position of a different class allocated to the same grade in the same agency/department, or to a position of the same class, or a different class allocated to the same grade, in a different agency/department.

V.

"Working day" means each day on which an employee performs a normal working shift, and including holidays as specified herein which fall on days of his or her normal working shift.

(Ord. No. 440.1761, § 2, 9-15-2015; Ord. No. 440.1762, § 1, 1-5-2016)