Sec. 36. (a) In cooperation with appointing authorities, the director shall establish, and may periodically amend:

(1) the standards of performance for employees;

(2) the expected outcomes for employees; and

(3) a system of service ratings based upon the standards described in subdivisions (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 state institution, and time sensitive.

(c) Each employee at all levels of the state civil service shall be held accountable for participating in the process of establishing the standards, outcomes, and ratings described in this section.

(d) Each appointing authority shall, at periodic intervals (but at least annually), make, and report to the director, service ratings for the employees in the appointing authority's division of the service. As requested by the director, the appointing authority shall provide the information on which the appointing authority relied in determining a service rating.

(e) Service ratings may be used as follows:

(1) To determine salary increases and decreases within the limits established by law and by the pay plan developed under section 27 of this chapter.

(2) As a factor in making promotions.

(3) As a means of discovering employees:

(A) who are candidates for promotion or transfer; or

(B) who, because of a low service rating, are candidates for demotion or dismissal.

As added by P.L.229-2011, SEC.56.