SEC. 18.108. STATUS OF INCUMBENT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.
§ 18.108
When this Charter takes effect, city employees retain their civil service rights and protections. If an employee's job is reclassified as exempt from civil service rules, they keep civil service status in that position. If a job's duties are transferred to another city office or department, the position and its current employee transfer together.
When the new city rules start, permanent city workers keep all their job protections—like pay, rank, and job security. If your job gets reclassified so it's no longer covered by civil service rules, you still keep your civil service protections in that job. If your job's main duties move to a different city office or department, your position moves there too, and you move with it.
- Complex:The section uses nested conditional clauses and cross-references the 1932 Charter, making it somewhat difficult to parse the precise conditions under which protections apply and transfer.
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Official text
The changes in and transfers of functions, powers and duties which occur at the time this Charter becomes operative shall not affect or impair the rights or privileges of permanent civil service officers or employees of the City and County relating to appointment, rank, grade, compensation, tenure of office, promotion, discipline, removal, pensions and retirement, except as provided in this Charter.
Whenever a position previously within the classified municipal civil service is, pursuant to this Charter, designated exempt from the civil service provisions of this Charter, the permanent civil service incumbent in such position at the time this Charter becomes operative shall continue to have civil service status in that position under the civil service provisions of this Charter.
If by the terms of this Charter, or action taken by authority of this Charter:
1. All or substantially all of the duties of any position exempt from the civil service provisions of the Charter of 1932 are transferred to another office, agency or department, that position shall be transferred to that office, agency or department and the person holding the position on the operative date of this Charter shall be transferred with the position.
2. All or substantially all of the duties of any civil service position are transferred to another office, agency or department, that position shall be transferred to that office, agency or department and the permanent civil service appointee holding the position on the operative date of this Charter shall be transferred with the position.