CODE OF VIRGINIA

BOARD TO ESTABLISH EMPLOYEE ENTRANCE AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (§ 63.2-219)

The Board shall establish minimum education, professional and training
requirements and performance standards for the personnel employed by the
Commissioner and local boards in the administration of this title and adopt
regulations to maintain such education, professional and training requirements
and performance standards, including such regulations as may be embraced in the
development of a system of personnel administration meeting requirements of the
Department of Health and Human Services under appropriate federal legislation
relating to programs administered by the Board. The Board shall adopt minimum
education, professional and training requirements and performance standards for
personnel to provide public assistance or social services.The Board shall
provide that the Department and its local boards or local departments shall not
employ any person in any family-services specialist position that provides
direct client services unless that person holds at least a baccalaureate degree.
Such requirement shall not be waived by the Department, Board, or any local
director or local governing body, unless such person has been employed prior to
January 1, 1999, by the Department or its local boards or local departments in a
family-services specialist position that provides direct client services.The
state grievance procedure adopted pursuant to Chapter 30 (§ 2.2-3000 et seq.)
of Title 2.2 shall apply to the personnel employed by the Commissioner. A local
social services department or local board shall adopt a grievance procedure that
is either (i) adopted by the locality in which the department or board is
located, or in the case of a regional department or board, the grievance
procedure adopted by one of its localities in the regional organization; or (ii)
approved by the Board consistent with the provisions of Chapter 30 (§ 2.2-3000
et seq.) of Title 2.2. The grievance procedure adopted by the local board shall
apply to employees, including local directors, of the local boards and local
departments.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 63-26, 63-136, 63-140.13, 63-158, 63-200; 1960, c. 440;
1962, c. 621; 1966, c. 112; 1968, cc. 578, 668, 670, §§ 63.1-26, 63.1-123;
1974, cc. 491, 504; 1975, cc. 176, 438; 1984, c. 781; 1990, c. 537; 1995, cc.
770, 818; 1999, c. 854; 2002, c. 747; 2004, c. 208; 2005, c. 714; 2014, c. 285.