(a) In cooperation with appointing authorities, the commissioner shall establish, and may periodically amend:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-30-313

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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
  • Department: refers to the department of human resources pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 8-30-103
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • 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
  • State agency: means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality in state service that is subject to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 8-30-103
(1) The standards of performance for employees;
(2) The expected outcomes for employees; and
(3) A system of job performance evaluations based upon the standards described in subdivisions (a)(1) and (2).
(b) Employee performance standards and expected outcomes must be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant to the strategic objective of the employee’s state agency or division, and time sensitive.
(c) Each appointing authority shall, at periodic intervals (but at least annually), make, and report to the commissioner, job performance evaluations for the employees in the appointing authority’s department or state agency. Upon request by the commissioner, the appointing authority shall provide the information on which the appointing authority relied in evaluating job performance.
(d) The performance evaluations of state service employees shall not be considered public records under § 10-7-503. Nothing in this subsection (d) shall be construed to limit access to these records by law enforcement agencies, courts, or other governmental agencies performing official functions.
(e) Job performance evaluations may be used as follows:

(1) To determine salary increases and decreases within the limits established by the compensation plan developed under this chapter;
(2) As a factor in making or denying promotions; and
(3) As a means of determining employees:

(A) Who are candidates for promotion or transfer; or
(B) Who, because of a low job performance evaluation, are candidates for demotion, dismissal or reduction in force.
(f) [Deleted by 2020 amendment.]
(g) In the process of establishing the system of job performance evaluations, the department shall afford representatives of recognized employee groups an opportunity to present facts, views or arguments related to the proposed system of job performance evaluations.
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