Rule 1: Definitions

Question 1

A person who has filed an application

Answer 1

Applicant

Question 2

The city manager or other legally designated official having the power of appointment and removal of employees

Answer 2

Appointing power

authority

or officer

Question 3

An unclassified employee in a formalized apprenticeship program

Answer 3

Apprentice

Question 4

The civil-service board of the city of Phoenix

Answer 4

Board

Question 5

Dismissal, resignation, retirement, or status change to part-time

Answer 5

Break in service

Question 6

A person participating in an examination

Answer 6

Candidate

Question 7

A position or group of positions similar in duties and responsibilities

Answer 7

Class or classification

Question 8

Designation given to a class

Answer 8

Class title

Question 9

Offices and/or positions in the service of the city of Phoenix

Answer 9

Classified service

Question 10

A list of names of employees who successfully completed promotional competitive tests

Answer 10

Competitive promotional list

Question 11

Transfer of an employee from a position in a higher class to a position in the lower class

Answer 11

Demotion

Question 12

The separation of an employee

Answer 12

Discharge

Dismissal

Or removal

Question 13

The suspension, demotion, or dismissal of an employee

Answer 13

Discipline

Question 14

A person whose name is recorded on a current original employment eligible, reinstatement, promotional, or recall list.

Answer 14

Eligible

Question 15

Legally an occupant of a position in the City service

Answer 15

Employee

Question 16

Lists of persons who successfully qualify for employment

Answer 16

Employment Lists

Question 17

Two or more classifications that are judged to be sufficiently similar

Answer 17

Equivalent classification

Question 18

The appraising of a candidate by the use of measurements

Answer 18

Examination

Question 19

Being employed with a work schedule over a period of 12 months

Answer 19

Full-Time Employee

Question 20

A position that is subject to the provisions of the federal fair labor standards act

Answer 20

Hourly

Question 21

Appointment of a classified employee to an unclassified position that is limited in time and is for the purpose of accommodating the absence of an employee on extended leave or for the purpose of accomplishing a special limited time project.

Answer 21

Interim

Question 22

Employee who is absent from work on a leave of absence, and has exhausted his paid leave banks

Answer 22

Inactive status

Question 23

Employment of 2 people in the same position that is budgeted on a regular full-time basis, where the 2 employees share the full-time work hours of the position.

Answer 23

Job sharing

Question 24

List of employees whose increased knowledge and skill in an entry-level classification qualifies the employee for promotion to a journeyman level classification.

Answer 24

Non-Competitive promotional list

Question 25

A position which is less than full-time, but which has a regular schedule on a year-round basis.

Answer 25

Part-time employee

Question 26

A specific office or employment, whether occupied or vacant

Answer 26

Position

Question 27

Advancement from a lower class to a higher class involving increase in responsibility

Answer 27

Promotion

Question 28

An appointment of a person to a regular position without an examination in the absence of an appropriate eligibility list.

Answer 28

Provisional

Question 29

Notice given either by posting, publication, or both

Answer 29

Public notice

Question 30

List of names of persons who were laid off from a class, on account of lack of work or funds, and whose names were placed on said list in accordance with these Rules

Answer 30

Recall list

Question 31

Being employed in a full-time budgeted position in the classified service

Answer 31

Regular employment

Question 32

A position that is exempt from the provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and is designated in the pay plan of the City of Phoenix

Answer 32

Salaried

Question 33

Temporary separation of an employee from the employee’s position for disciplinary reasons.

Answer 33

Suspension

Question 34

Being employed in a position that is temporary in nature and is not an established regularly budgeted position.

Answer 34

Temporary employee

Question 35

Employee in an unclassified traditional classification designated to provide instruction and work experience.

Answer 35

Trainee

Question 36

The assignment of an employee from one position in the City service to another position for which the employee possesses the qualification requirements, and the pay range is equivalent.

Answer 36

Transfer

Question 37

A position that does not have an incumbent

Answer 37

Vacancy/vacant position

Question 38

Work day- 56 hour employee

Answer 38

3 consecutive = 2 shifts

5 consecutive= 3 shifts

30 work days= 14 shifts

60 work days= 27 shifts