Sections:
4.0201	Applicability of definitions.
4.0202	Abandonment of position.
4.0203	Accrued leave.
4.0204	Accumulated leave.
4.0205	Acting appointment.
4.0206	Administration.
4.0207	Administrative authority.
4.0208	Repealed.
4.0209	Agency.
4.0210	Annual leave.
4.0211	Appeal.
4.0212	Appointing authority.
4.0213	Apprenticeship.
4.0214	Areas of training.
4.0215	ASG.
4.0216	Assembled examination.
4.0217	Basic salary rate.
4.0218	Basic training.
4.0219	Board.
4.0220	Bumping.
4.0221	Career service.
4.0222	Certificate of eligibles.
4.0223	Certification.
4.0224	Class.
4.0225	Compensatory time.
4.0226	Competitive personnel action.
4.0227	Conference leadership.
4.0228	Conflict of interest.
4.0229	Contagious disease.
4.0230	Contract specialist.
4.0231	Cooperative education plan.
4.0232	Course of study.
4.0233	Demotion.
4.0234	Department.
4.0235	Desirable qualifications.
4.0236	Detail.
4.0237	Director.
4.0238	Disabled veteran.
4.0239	Dismissal.
4.0240	Education.
4.0241	Educational counseling.
4.0242	Elevation.
4.0243	Eligible.
4.0244	Emergency appointment.
4.0245	Employee.
4.0246	Employee development.
4.0247	Employee relations.
4.0248	Excepted service.
4.0249	Executive development.
4.0250	Executive ungraded positions.
4.0251	First-line supervision.
4.0252	Followup training.
4.0253	Full biweekly pay period.
4.0254	Full-time employment.
4.0255	Grievance.
4.0256	Holidays.
4.0257	Human relations.
4.0258	Human relations training.
4.0259	Incentive awards.
4.0260	Induction training.
4.0261	In-service training.
4.0262	Institute.
4.0263	Internship.
4.0264	Intervening salary steps.
4.0265	Job analysis.
4.0266	Job code.
4.0267	Job cost.
4.0268	Job evaluation.
4.0269	Job family.
4.0270	Job rotation.
4.0271	Job standard.
4.0272	Journeyman.
4.0273	Leave without pay.
4.0274	Leave with pay.
4.0275	Leave year.
4.0276	Lecture.
4.0277	Line.
4.0278	Line responsibility.
4.0279	Management.
4.0280	Manpower.
4.0281	Maternity leave.
4.0282	Medical certificate.
4.0283	Minimum qualifications.
4.0284	Mockup.
4.0285	Morale.
4.0286	Motion study.
4.0287	Motivation.
4.0288	Noncompetitive personnel action.
4.0289	Nonstandard workweek.
4.0290	Off-site training.
4.0291	On-the-job training.
4.0292	Orientation training.
4.0293	Out-service training.
4.0294	Overtime.
4.0295	Part-time employment.
4.0296	Pay adjustment.
4.0297	Performance rating.
4.0298	Performance standard.
4.0299	Periodic increment rate.
4.02100	Permanent employee.
4.02101	Personnel management.
4.02102	Position.
4.02103	Position description.
4.02104	Post-training.
4.02105	Preassignment training.
4.02106	Preemployment training.
4.02107	Preference eligible.
4.02108	Premium payment.
4.02109	Probationary period.
4.02110	Program.
4.02111	Promotion.
4.02112	Public administration.
4.02113	Rating.
4.02114	Reassignment.
4.02115	Reduction-in-force.
4.02116	Reduction in salary.
4.02117	Refresher training.
4.02118	Register.
4.02119	Reinstatement.
4.02120	Related training.
4.02121	Remedial training.
4.02122	Resignation.
4.02123	Resources.
4.02124	Retraining.
4.02125	Reversion.
4.02126	Salary range.
4.02127	Screening committee.
4.02128	Selecting authority.
4.02129	Selective certification.
4.02130	Seminar.
4.02131	Sick leave.
4.02132	Skill training.
4.02133	Standard workday.
4.02134	Standard workweek.
4.02135	Supervisor.
4.02136	Suspension.
4.02137	Temporary employment.
4.02138	Termination.
4.02139	Training aids.
4.02140	Training committee.
4.02141	Training plan.
4.02142	Training policy.
4.02143	Training timetable.
4.02144	Transfer.
4.02145	Trial service period.
4.02146	Tuition.
4.02147	Unassembled examination.
4.02148	Veteran.
4.02149	Work simplification.

The definitions set out in this chapter apply throughout this title, except 4.13, unless the context clearly indicates another meaning.

"Abandonment of position” means failure of an employee to report for duty or to return from leave for 5 or more consecutive work days.

"Accrued leave" means leave earned by an employee during the current calendar year that is unused at any given time during that calendar year.

"Accumulated leave" means unused leave remaining to the credit of an employee at the beginning of a new calendar year.

"Acting appointment" means a temporary appointment made to a supervisory or managerial position.

"Administration" means that activity of management which fulfills or carries out the objectives, or goals, for which the organization or project is established. It includes that phase of management that lays down and directs policies and procedures by which resources, human and otherwise, can best be used to attain established goals, for which it demands that there be continuous unification of data, facts, and opinions collected from varied sources, and through which there must be channeled a free flow of information, suggestions, ideas, and plans to and from all levels -up and down, as well as across.

Administrative authority, applicable only to the judiciary means the official or officials with primary administrative responsibility, as delegated by the Chief Justice.

"Agency" means an office, department, or other separate unit or division, however designated, of ASG. It includes any unit of government established by law or the Chief Executive, upon which the statutes confer powers and impose duties in connection with operations of either a governmental or proprietary nature.

"Annual leave" means authorized absence from duty with pay to allow employees a vacation, period for rest and relaxation and to provide time off for personal and emergency purposes The use of annual leave must be officially authorized prior to being taken.

"Appeal" means response by an individual to action t2.ken against him. The right of appeal extends to such actions as classification decisions, disciplinary actions, actions of alleged discrimination, and such other actions as provided for in this title.

"Appointing authority" means the person lawfully authorized to make appointments. The appointing authority for the Executive Branch of the ASG is the director of manpower resources. The appointing authority for the High Court is the Chief Justice.

"Apprenticeship" means a comprehensive program, for training the learner toward a specialized trade or craft under the full responsibility of the employer and on a long-term basis. It includes thorough instruction in the principles and practices of the particular trade or craft as well as in academic and related subjects.

"Areas of training" is a term used to include the training activities for certain classes of positions, such as clerical, skilled trades, and professional, and for programs of training such as orientation, supervision, and safety.

"Assembled examination" means an examination for which applicants are required to assemble or be physically present at an appointed time and place.

"Basic salary rate" means the dollar amount of the step of the salary range to which the employee is entitled, before any deduction, and exclusive'"of additional compensation of any kind. History: Rule 10-81, eff 29 Jul 81, § 2.0 (part).

"Basic training", as part of induction, means the fundamental or essential training required for a position.

"Board" means the pennel advisory board, which hears and investigates all appeals resulting from employee actions.

"Bumping" means the replacement of an incumbent subject to reduction-in-force by another employee who has greater seniority.

"Career service" means that system of personnel administration based on merit principles which provides for the attraction, selection, and retention of the best-qualified of our citizens for pen11anent employment in the state government service. Entry is normally through competitive examination, and formalized channels of advancement and training are provided. Career service covers all employees of the government not in excepted status.

"Certificate of eligibles" means the official document through which eligibles are referred for employment consideration.

"Certification” means the process by which the names of qualified eligibles are referred.

"Class" means the identification of a position or a group of positions sufficiently similar in duties so that the same requirements of training, experience, or skill and the same title, examination, and salary range may be applied.

"Competitive personnel action” means a type of personnel action which can be effected only if applicable competitive procedures; i.e., those governing advertising and examining, have taken place.

"Conference leadership" means the art of planning, leading, guiding, and directing a conference.

"Conflict of interest" means a situation in which an employee's private interests, usually of an economic nature, conflict or raise a reasonable question of conflict with his public duties and responsibilities. The potential conflict is of concern whether it is real or apparent.

"Contagious disease" means a disease requiring isolation of the patient, quarantine, or restriction of movement, as prescribed by health authorities.

"Contract specialist" means a person who has entered into an agreement with the government or High Court to perform specified duties and responsibilities for a specific period of time, who is not in the ASG civil service.

"Cooperative education plan” means training in which trainees alternate between periods of formal instruction in educational institutions and guided learning on the job through work experience related to the formal instruction.

"Course of study" means a training plan having a series of instructional units which have been developed to accomplish a specific training objective.

"Demotion” means change of an employee from a position in I class to a position in another class having a lower salary range.

"Department" means an entity of the Executive Branch headed by a director nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Fono. This term includes departments, offices, and agencies.