230.19

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230.19 Promotion.

230.19(1)

(1) The administrator shall provide employees with reasonable opportunities for career advancement, within a classified service structure designed to achieve and maintain a highly competent work force, with due consideration given to affirmative action.

230.19(2)

(2) If, in the judgment of the administrator, the group of applicants best able to meet the requirements for vacancies in positions in the classified service are available within the classified service, the vacancies shall be filled by competition limited to persons in the classified service who are not employed under § 230.26 or 230.27 and persons with the right of restoration resulting from layoff under § 230.34 (2), unless it is necessary to go outside the classified service to be consistent with an approved affirmative action plan or program. The administrator may also limit competition for promotion to the employees of an agency or an employing unit within an agency if the resulting group of applicants would fairly represent the proportion of members of racial and ethnic, gender or disabled groups in the relevant labor pool for the state.

230.19(3)

(3) A person with the right of restoration resulting from layoff under § 230.34 (2) may compete only for a position under sub. (2) for which he or she could have competed had the layoff not occurred.