Section 45113 Of Article 1. Employment From California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 25. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
45113
. (a) The governing board of a school district shall prescribe
written rules and regulations, governing the personnel management of
the classified service, which shall be printed and made available to
employees in the classified service, the public, and those concerned
with the administration of this section, whereby these employees are
designated as permanent employees of the district after serving a
prescribed period of probation which shall not exceed one year. A
permanent employee who accepts a promotion and fails to complete the
probationary period for that promotional position, shall be employed
in the classification from which he or she was promoted.
(b) Any employee designated as a permanent employee shall be
subject to disciplinary action only for cause as prescribed by rule
or regulation of the governing board, but the governing board's
determination of the sufficiency of the cause for disciplinary action
shall be conclusive.
(c) The governing board shall adopt rules of procedure for
disciplinary proceedings which shall contain a provision for
informing the employee by written notice of the specific charges
against him or her, a statement of the employee's right to a hearing
on those charges, and the time within which the hearing may be
requested which shall be not less than five days after service of the
notice to the employee, and a card or paper, the signing and filing
of which shall constitute a demand for hearing, and a denial of all
charges. The burden of proof shall remain with the governing board,
and any rule or regulation to the contrary shall be void.
(d) No disciplinary action shall be taken for any cause which
arose prior to the employee's becoming permanent, nor for any cause
which arose more than two years preceding the date of the filing of
the notice of cause unless the cause was concealed or not disclosed
by the employee when it could be reasonably assumed that the employee
should have disclosed the facts to the employing district.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the
governing board, pursuant to the terms of an agreement with an
employee organization under Chapter 10.7 (commencing with Section
3540) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, from
delegating its authority to determine whether sufficient cause exists
for disciplinary action against classified employees, excluding
peace officers as defined in Section 830.32 of the Penal Code, to an
impartial third party hearing officer. However, the governing board
shall retain authority to review the determination under the
standards set forth in Section 1286.2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(f) This section shall apply only to districts not incorporating
the merit system as outlined in Article 6 (commencing with Section
45240) of this chapter.