Timetable of Performance Management Activities Sample Clauses

Timetable of Performance Management Activities a. Employees covered by this system are normally appraised annually under the following fixed appraisal cycle: October 1 – September 30. b. The minimum performance appraisal period is 120 days. c. Rating officials will strive to establish and approve performance plans within 30 days of the beginning of the appraisal cycle but in no event longer than 60 days from the beginning of the appraisal cycle. d. When an employee enters a position or changes positions after the start of the annual appraisal cycle, a performance plan will generally be established and approved within 30 days of the effective date of the appointment to the new position but in no event longer than 60 days from the date that the employee enters the position. e. When an employee is detailed or temporarily promoted to a position within the Department and is expected to serve in the position for 120 days or longer, an approved performance plan will generally be established and approved within 30 days from the beginning of a detail or temporary promotion but in no event longer than 60 days from the beginning of the detail or temporary promotion. f. Interim summary ratings are required when an employee changes positions after serving in a covered position for at least 120 days, or when an employee serves on a detail or temporary promotion within the Department of at least 120 days during the appraisal cycle. The interim rating must be completed within 30 days of the change of position or end of the detail or temporary promotion. g. When a covered employee has not served 120 days of the appraisal cycle in his/her current position of record, the employee’s interim rating becomes his/her final rating of record for the appraisal cycle (see 26.15). In these situations the time remaining in the current cycle (from the date he or she entered into the current position of record through the end of the appraisal cycle) will be incorporated into the next appraisal cycle and his or her work for that period will be evaluated at the end of the next cycle. The employee’s performance plan should reflect those dates. h. Appraisals and annual ratings of record must be completed within 30 days of the end of the appraisal cycle, except that those employees who are unrateable at the end of the appraisal cycle because they have not served in a covered position for at least 120 days of the appraisal cycle and have not received an interim rating must be rated within 30 days after completing 120 days in their current ...