§522.  Probationary term and tenure; employees other than teachers

A.  Each employee of the Orleans Parish School Board shall serve a probationary term of three years, such probationary term to be reckoned from the date of his first appointment to the position in which he is serving his probation.  During this probationary term, the Orleans Parish School Board may dismiss or discharge any probationary employee upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of the Orleans Parish School Board, accompanied by valid reasons therefor.

B.(1)  Any employee found unsatisfactory by the Orleans Parish School Board shall be notified in writing before the expiration of his probationary term that he has been discharged or dismissed.  In the absence of such written notification, the probationary employee shall automatically become a regular and permanent employee of the Orleans Parish School Board at the expiration of his probationary term.

(2)  All employees of the Orleans Parish School Board on July 26, 1944, who have served satisfactorily for more than three years are declared to be regular and permanent employees of the Orleans Parish School Board.

C.(1)  Whenever an employee who has not completed the probationary period required to acquire permanent status is employed by the Orleans Parish School Board for a project or program of limited and specified duration or is employed in a position in which the employee is paid with funds other than operational funds generated from regular state or local sources, the time of service in such employment shall not be considered service time for purposes of completion of the probationary term required to acquire permanent status.

(2)  Whenever an employee has acquired permanent status in the Orleans Parish school system and then is employed by the parish school board for a project or program of limited and specified duration or is employed in a position in which the employee is paid with funds other than operational funds generated from regular state or local sources, such employee shall not have or acquire regular and permanent status in such position, but shall retain any regular and permanent status previously acquired.

D.  No employee, as defined in R.S. 17:521, hired by the Orleans Parish School Board on or after July 1, 2007, shall be eligible to acquire permanent status.

Acts 1988, No. 80, §1; Acts 2007, No. 251, §1, eff. July 1, 2007.