The tenure of every permanent employee holding a position is during good behavior. Any such employee may be temporarily separated from the state civil service through layoff, leave of absence, or suspension, permanently separated through resignation or removal for cause, or permanently or temporarily separated through retirement or terminated for medical reasons under the provisions of Section 19253.5.
Cal. Gov. Code § 19996
General
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case McLean v. State of California (2016)
Most recently applied in Int'l Bhd. of Boilermakers v. Nassco Holdings Inc. (November 2017)
Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 230, Sec. 55.
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.