Employees covered

The major discipline rules in this subchapter reach permanent career-service employees and people serving a working test period. For other employees, an appointing authority may set up its own major discipline procedures. Where the State and a majority representative have negotiated a review procedure under the Employer-Employee Relations Act, that negotiated procedure controls.

Key points, as written in the regulation^[1]

• This subchapter applies only to permanent employees in the career service or a person serving a working test period.
• Appointing authorities may establish major discipline procedures for other employees.

Related in NJCSNavigator

• local civil service titles Explains which local-service titles fall under NJ Civil Service, the population this section covers.
• the employee-rights side of major discipline NJCSNavigator's companion explainer on N.J.A.C. 4A:2 written for the covered employee, not the records researcher.