03-22-2025, 05:18 PM
Acer wrote:
As I understand it, and it's probably been said here before but I'll add it for the new people: "Probationary" included persons who had recently been promoted or otherwise moved to a different position but had been government employees already. You could theoretically have had a 30 year work history within the very same department, and just get that step up from Whatever Rank 3 to Whatever Rank 4, as civil service jobs are often structured...and been cut for "performance."
Unless things have changed (and I haven’t looked at this in the last twenty years, so it could have):
The rank and file fall under a wage/step system: a particular job has a wage associated with it, with the range in wage encompassed by “steps”. In other words, they could pay a wage ranging from x to y; as long as you stayed in the position AND had good performance reviews you could advance to the next pay step until you hit the maximum, where you would stay unless you went for another position. A step increase might take two years to achieve; performance reviews are yearly. It was not like you would/could refuse a step increase! It was pretty much automatic unless you really were a screwup and were on the way out the door anyways. If the individual was considered probationary with every step increase, then they would never get out of the probationary period. When I was there, it was a one-year probationary period from the date of hire, not the date of the last “promotion”.