Appointment, Tenure, Layoff and Dismissal of Employees
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 166 Cal. App. 3d 1151 - Brown v. State Personnel Board (1985)
Most recently applied in 136 F. Supp. 3d 1140 - Ellis v. San Francisco State University (December 2015)
Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1635, Sec. 39.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Any permanent or probationary employee may be dismissed, demoted, or suspended for the following causes:
(a) Immoral conduct.
(b) Unprofessional conduct.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) Incompetency.
(e) Addiction to the use of controlled substances.
(f) Failure or refusal to perform the normal and reasonable duties of the position.
(g) Conviction of a felony or conviction of any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.
(h) Fraud in securing appointment.
(i) Drunkenness on duty.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.