West Virginia Code 29-6-24 – Posting of job openings
(a) Whenever a job opening occurs within the classified service, the appointing authority shall, in addition to any other requirement of law or regulation for the posting of job opening notices, at least ten days before making an appointment to fill the job opening, post a notice within the building or facility where the duties of the job will be performed and throughout the agency, which notice states that a job opening has occurred and describes the duties to be performed by a person employed in that position.
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 29-6-24
- Agency: means any administrative unit of state government, including any authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, division, section or office. See West Virginia Code 29-6-2
- Appointing authority: means a person or group of persons authorized by an agency to make appointments to positions in the classified or classified-exempt service. See West Virginia Code 29-6-2
- Classified service: means an employee whose job satisfies the definitions for "class" and "classify" and who is covered under the civil service system. See West Virginia Code 29-6-2
- Position: means a particular job which has been classified based on specifications. See West Virginia Code 29-6-2
(b) If an individual selected for a posted vacancy within the first ten work days of employment: (1) Refuses the offer of employment; (2) fails to report to work; or (3) resigns or otherwise separates from employment, the appointing authority is not required to repost the vacancy prior to another appointment to the position if the appointment is made within thirty days and the selection is made from the pool of eligible applicants from which the first employee was hired.