(110 ILCS 70/36j) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 38b9)
Sec. 36j.
Promotions.
The Merit Board shall by rules provide for promotions on the basis of
ability and experience and seniority in service and examination and to
provide in all cases where it is practicable that vacancies will be filled
by promotion. The Merit Board shall by rule fix lines of promotion from
such several offices and places to superior offices or places in all cases
where, in the judgment of the Merit Board, the duties of such several
positions directly tend to fit the incumbent for a superior position.
Employees promoted in the promotional line shall have their seniority
for the highest position held on the basis of length of service in that
classification. For the next lower classification the employee may add his
seniority in the higher classification to that in the lower to determine
seniority in the lower classification.
Whenever a superior position in the promotional line in the classified
civil service under the University System is to be filled, the Director
shall certify to the employer, in the order of their seniority, the names
and addresses of the three persons standing highest upon the promotional
register for the class or grade to which said position belongs. The
employer shall appoint one of the three persons whose names were certified
by the Director. Sex shall be disregarded except when the nature of the
position requires otherwise. Appointments to superior positions in the
promotional line shall be on probation for a period of no less than 6
months and no longer than 12 months for each class of positions
in the classification plan, the length of the probationary period having
been determined by the Director. Persons
so appointed may be demoted at any time during the period of probation, if,
in the opinion of the employer, they have failed to demonstrate the ability
and the qualifications necessary to furnish satisfactory service, but shall
not be discharged from the superior position if they have previously
completed a probationary period in an inferior position in the promotional
line.
Whenever a person is promoted to a superior position in the promotional
line prior to the completion of the probationary period in
any one of the positions in the classified civil service under the
University System, total service in the inferior position and in all such
superior positions shall be combined to establish certified status and
seniority in the inferior position.
(Source: P.A. 82-524.)
|