(1) Except when appointed to a job classification with an initial probationary period in excess of six (6) months, and except as provided in KRS § 18A.005 and this section, an employee shall serve a six (6) months probationary period when he is initially appointed to the classified service. An employee may be separated from his position, reduced in class or rank, or replaced on the eligible list during this initial probationary period and shall not have a right to appeal, except as provided by KRS
18A.095. The employee may be placed on an eligible list but shall not be certified to the agency from which he was separated unless that agency so requests. Unless the appointing authority notifies the employee prior to the end of the initial probationary period that he is separated, the employee shall be deemed to have served satisfactorily and shall acquire status in the classified service.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 18A.111

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appointing authority: means the agency head or any person whom he or she has authorized by law to designate to act on behalf of the agency with respect to employee appointments, position establishments, payroll documents, register requests, waiver requests, requests for certification, or other position actions. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Board: means the Personnel Board created by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Class: means a group of positions sufficiently similar as to duties performed, scope of discretion and responsibility, minimum requirements of training, experience, or skill, and such other characteristics that the same title, the same tests of fitness, and the same schedule of compensation have been or may be applied to each position in the group. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Classified service: includes all the employment subject to the terms of this chapter except for those positions expressly cited in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Eligible: refers to a person who has made a passing score on any examination required under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Employee: means a person regularly appointed to a position in the state service for which he or she is compensated on a full-time, part-time, or interim basis. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Position: means an office or employment in an agency (whether part-time, full- time, or interim, occupied, or vacant) involving duties requiring the services of one (1) person. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Status: means the acquisition of tenure with all rights and privileges granted by the provisions of this chapter after satisfactory completion of the initial probationary period by an employee in the classified service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005

(2) An employee who satisfactorily completes the initial probationary period for the position to which he was initially appointed to the classified service shall be granted status and may not be demoted, disciplined, dismissed, or otherwise penalized, except as provided by the provisions of this chapter.
(3) An employee ordered reinstated by the board shall not be required to serve a probationary period unless the board rules otherwise.
(4) An employee with status, who has been promoted, shall serve a promotional probationary period of six (6) months, except for those employees granted leave in excess of twenty (20) consecutive work days during this period. Such probationary periods shall be extended as prescribed in KRS § 18A.005. During this period, he shall retain the rights and privileges granted by the provisions of this chapter to status employees.
(5) An employee with status may request that he be reverted to a position in his former class at any time during the promotional probationary period.
(6) A laid-off employee who accepts a bona fide written offer of appointment to a position shall not be required to serve an initial probationary period. He shall be an employee with status and shall have all rights and privileges granted employees with status under the provisions of this chapter.
(7) A former unclassified employee under KRS § 18A.115(1)(d), (e), (f), (g), (h), or (i) shall serve an initial probationary period of twelve (12) months if the employee is appointed to a position in the classified service, unless that employee had previously had status in the classified service or had been separated from his or her previous unclassified position for at least one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the effective date of his or her appointment to the classified service.
(8) Notification to an employee on initial or promotional probation of the reason the probationary employment has been terminated by the appointing authority shall not confer a right to appeal to the board.
Effective: April 13, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 153, sec. 9, effective April 13, 2010. — Amended
2002 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec. 26, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 203, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1988. — Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 494, sec. 2, effective July 15,
1986.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. I, C, 2, (1) at 1658.

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