HB160 Alabama 2011 Session

Relating to Jefferson County; to provide that, after the effective date of this act, persons in certain specified positions in county government shall be engaged and employed at-will, and shall serve at pleasure as unclassified employees not subject to the merit system otherwise applicable with respect to employees of the county generally; to authorize the determination of the compensation of such persons serving as unclassified employees; to provide that any unclassified employee shall, in respect of dismissal or for any other grievance, have no right of appeal to the Personnel Board of Jefferson County and no property interest in his or her position of employment as an unclassified employee of the county; to provide for and restrict in certain events the return of an unclassified employee to the county's classified service; to provide that a person's conversion from employment in the classified service of the county to an unclassified position shall be a condition of employment for appointment made after the effective date of such county employee to an unclassified position; to provide that persons not previously employees of the county at the time of their appointment to unclassified positions as provided for in the act shall become unclassified employees of the county; and to provide that persons employed as unclassified employees shall be eligible for county employee benefits, including, but not limited to, retirement benefits, as shall otherwise be provided for county employees.