Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 75-5505

  • employee: means any appointed or elective officer or any employee of the state of Kansas. See Kansas Statutes 75-5530
  • implementation date: means the date fixed under this subsection by the secretary of administration. See Kansas Statutes 75-5501a
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • State agency: means any state office or officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau or any agency, division or unit within any office, department, board, commission or other state authority or any person requesting a state appropriation;

    (b) "disaster" includes disasters designated at level II and above in the American national red cross regulations and procedures. See Kansas Statutes 75-5547

(a) It is the policy of the state that a forty-hour workweek shall be the standard workweek of state employees, and all pay rates established for such employees shall be based on a forty-hour workweek, except that workweeks which deviate from the forty-hour workweek may be established by appointing authorities in order to meet the varying needs of the different state agencies, and in such cases the pay rates established shall be based on the workweek so established.

(b) Every state agency shall submit information to the director of accounts and reports:

(1) Necessary for determining the number of hours per day and the number of days per week or, in case of irregular workweeks, the number of hours per week which shall constitute full-time employment for each position within its jurisdiction;

(2) showing such schedules of work time assignment that are in effect for each employee in the agency;

(3) describing the system of accruing credits and charges for all recognized annual, sick and other compensable leave for all officers and employees of the state agency who are not covered for such purposes by the Kansas civil service act and, if biweekly payroll periods are established for officers or employees of the state agency under Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-5501a, the balances of such accrued credits for such officers or employees on the implementation date; and

(4) specifying the terms of any contractual obligations that affect any employment relationship.

(c) Nothing in this section shall apply to individual elective state officers.