Section 19170 Of Article 6. Probationary Period From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 6.
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. (a) The board shall establish for each class the length of
the probationary period. The probationary period that shall be served
upon appointment shall be six months unless the board establishes a
longer period of not more than one year.
(b) By rule, the board may:
(1) Increase the length of individual probationary periods by
adding periods of time to any periods of time an employee, while
serving as a probationer, is absent from his or her position.
(2) Require an additional probationary period not to exceed the
length of the probationary period of the class in which the
probationer was appointed when the probationary employee returns
after an extended period of absence and the remainder of the
probationary period is insufficient to evaluate his or her current
performance.
(c) Upon written agreement between an appointing power and an
employee who alleges that he or she has a disability, as defined in
Section 12926, subject to approval of the agreement by the board, the
employee's probationary period may be extended for a period, not to
exceed six months, to allow the appointing power to provide a
reasonable accommodation to the employee and the employee to
demonstrate, before the probationary period ends, the ability to
perform satisfactorily the essential functions of the position with
reasonable accommodation. Nothing in this subdivision may relieve an
appointing power from complying with applicable law requiring
reasonable accommodation or prohibiting discrimination based on
disability, and no employee, as a condition of an agreement to extend
the probationary period, may be required to waive or release any
rights he or she may have under applicable law requiring reasonable
accommodation or prohibiting discrimination based on disability.