Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 743]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 30

X I . Suspension T h e appointing officer may suspend for cause an employee in the classified service for any reasonable period not to exceed thirty days. If the suspension is made pending an investigation of written charges seeking the removal or discharge of the employee, the Board may extend such suspension until the investigation has been completed. All suspensions shall be without pay and the employee shall be furnished with a statement in writing setting forth the reasons for such suspension. X I I . Discharge and D e m o t i o n "No officer or employee in the classified civil service under the provisions of this section shall be removed or discharged, except for just cause, upon ivritten charges, and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. Such charges shall be investigated and heard by or before said Board. The finding and decision of such Board shall be certified to the appointing officer and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer. In the course of an investigation of charges, each member of the Board and the Secretary shall have the power to administer oaths and shall have power to secure by subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers relevant to such investigation, "In all removal proceedings any member of the Board and its Secretary may administer oaths." Written charges made against any officer or employee in this classified service seeking his removal or discharge shall be signed by the appointing officer, shall state specifically the facts alleged to constitute just cause for removal or discharge, and shall be filed with the Board by the appointing officer. A true copy of the charges filed shall be served personally or by registered mail on the officer or employee so charged. T h e written charges shall contain a statement advising the employee that he may, within seven days after receipt of notice, request a hearing, by filing such request with the Secretary of the hearing committee. A hearing committee appointed by the Board and composed of three members of the University civil service committee with the Secretary of the Board serving as Secretary of this committee, shall arrange the time and place of the hearing, conduct it, and record the evidence. The appointing officer shall make such investigation as is necessary to determine the facts. In presenting these facts before the hearing committee, the appointing officer may be represented by the Attorney General or his duly appointed representative. A written record of the facts, together with a recommendation, shall be transmitted by the hearing committee to the Board for a decision. If a hearing is not requested by the employee against whom charges have been filed, the hearing committee shall nevertheless take testimony and make a report and recommendation to the Board for a decision. The production of testimony or proof before the hearing committee shall, in so far as practicable, be governed by the rules of evidence as applied by the courts of record in this State. The finding and decision of the Board shall be certified in writing to the employee and to the appointing officer and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer. In case the Board finds the accused employee not guilty of the charges made against him, it shall reinstate him under such conditions as it deems fair and proper. Any change of a classified employee requiring a decrease in compensation and classification shall be deemed a demotion except when reductions are general in this classified service. T h e appointing officer may give notice of request for demotion to a classified employee for any one of the following reasons: ( a ) that the employee is not rendering satisfactory service in the position he holds but is considered worthy of an opportunity to render satisfactory service in a position of a lower classification; ( b ) that the position occupied by the employee has been, or is soon to be discontinued, by reason of reallocation of the position to a different classification, or by reason of lack of work or funds,