1000.1 The District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 (also referred to as the "CMPA"), D.C. Law 2-139, Title VIIIA, § 801A(a), provides for the creation of the Educational Service for all employees of the Board of Education except the following:

1. (a) Clerical, stenographic, or secretarial positions;
2. (b) Custodial, building maintenance, building engineer, general maintenance, or general engineering positions;
3. (c) Bus drivers and other drivers involved in the transportation of persons, equipment, materials, or inventory;
4. (d) Cooks, dieticians, and other positions involved in the direct planning, preparing, and serving of food;
5. (e) Technicians involved in the operation or maintenance of machinery, vehicles, equipment, or the processing of materials and inventory; or
6. (f) Positions, the major duties of which consist of the supervision of employees covered in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this subsection.

1000.2 Employees within the exceptions designated in § 1000.1 shall be considered part of the Career Service established under the CMPA.

1000.3 All existing Teachers' Salary Act(TSA) employees and General Schedule (GS) employees, other than those excepted under § 1000.1, shall be automatically transferred to the Educational Service on January 1, 1980.

1000.4 Career Service employees of the Board of Education shall be governed by regulations issued by the Mayor, except that the Board has authority to the extent allowed by law to issue rules governing Career Service employees in the following subject areas:

1. (a) Hours of work;
2. (b) Holidays;
3. (c) Leave;
4. (d) Performance evaluation;
5. (e) Adverse actions;
6. (f) Grievances;
7. (g) Labor management relations;
8. (h) Political rights of employees; and
9. (i) Records management and privacy of records.

AUTHORITY: Unless otherwise noted the authority for this chapter is § 2 of An Act approved June 20, 1906, 34 Stat. 317, ch.3446, D.C. Official Code § 38-102 (2001).

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 27 DCR 4297 (October 3, 1980).