After consultation with state agency heads, employee organizations, and other interested parties, the director shall develop standardized employee performance evaluation procedures and forms which shall be used by state agencies for the appraisal of employee job performance at least annually. These procedures shall include means whereby individual agencies may supplement the standardized evaluation process with special performance factors peculiar to specific organizational needs. Performance evaluation procedures shall place primary emphasis on recording how well the employee has contributed to efficiency, effectiveness, and economy in fulfilling state agency and job objectives.
RCW 41.06.169
Employee performance evaluations—Standardized procedures and forms required to be developed.
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 71 Wash. App. 317 - Sullivan v. Department of Transportation (1993)
Most recently applied in Skelly v. CRIMINAL JUSTICE TRAINING COM'N (October 2006)
2011 1st sp.s. c 43 s 414; 1985 c 461 s 3; 1982 1st ex.s. c 53 s 5; 1977 ex.s. c 152 s 6.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.