(a) When an appointing authority desires to fill a position in the preferred service, and the commissioner cannot timely evaluate the pool of candidates for such vacancy, the commissioner may authorize the appointing authority to fill the position by temporary appointment for a period not to exceed six (6) months. A temporary appointee shall hold a position only until an appropriate pool has been established, the required evaluation is completed, and the appointment of the preferred service employee begins. No temporary appointment shall be renewed.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-30-309

  • Appointing authority: means a commissioner, department, officer or agency having power to make appointments to, and separations from, positions in state service. See Tennessee Code 8-30-103
  • Commissioner: refers to the commissioner of human resources appointed under §. See Tennessee Code 8-30-103
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Preferred service: means all offices and positions of employment in the state service that have been placed under the preferred service provisions of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 8-30-103
  • Service: means service as a general employee, a teacher, a state police officer, a wildlife officer, a firefighter, a police officer, a state judge, a county judge, an attorney general, a commissioner or a county official which is paid for by an employer, and also includes service for which a former member of the general assembly is entitled to under former §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
(b) An appointing authority may, with the approval of the commissioner, temporarily fill an existing preferred service position, for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days, by utilizing a temporary staffing service having a contract with the state to provide short-term temporaries. This subsection (b) applies only to the utilization of vendor-supplied temporaries.
(c) If the position to be filled is not officially vacant, the appointing authority must obtain the commissioner’s approval to overlap the position with another prior to making an appointment.
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