State employment: adverse actions.

The California Civil Service Act authorizes an appointing power to take adverse action against an employee for specified causes for discipline and establishes administrative procedures for review of an adverse action by the State Personnel Board. The act requires an adverse action against a state employee to commence within 3 years of the cause for discipline, as specified. This bill would require an adverse action against a state managerial employee, state confidential employee, or state supervisory employee, as defined, to commence within one year of the discovery of the cause for discipline. The bill would also require the notice of the adverse action against those employees based on fraud, embezzlement, or the falsification of records to be served within 3 years after the discovery of the fraud, embezzlement, or falsification.