Contra Costa County
Contra Costa County is dedicated to providing public services which improve the quality of life of our residents and the economic viability of our businesses.
What is the mission statement?
The origin of the modern meritocratic civil service can be traced back to this society in AD 605.
What is Sui dynasty in imperial China?
This federal law provides employees working for an employer with 50 or more employees with protected leave status.
What is the Family Medical Leave Act, or FMLA?
This important step in the discipline process became required after a physician by the same name challenged the right of the California State Department of Health Care Services to fire him for disciplinary reasons.
What is a Skelly hearing?
This viral movement emerged in 2017 with the hashtag with the same name in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment.
What is the #metoo movement?
The most populated city within the Contra Costa County borders according to the 2010 census, with a population density of 3,996.2 people per square mile.
What is Concord?
The assassination of this US President moved Civil Service reform forward after his assassin shot him because he believed that he was owed a patronage position for his "vital assistance" in securing the President's election the previous year.
Who is President James A. Garfield?
(In 1881, which led to the 1883 Congressional vote to pass the Civil Service Act, which is also referred to as the Pendleton Act, after the Ohio Senator that was one of the primary sponsors.)
The number of weeks of protected leave that the can be used to care for a family member with a serious health condition under federal law.
What is 12 weeks per year?
The quasi-judicial administrative body with the authority to hear cases of alleged violations of collective bargaining agreements and/or statutes.
What is the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB)?
The Fair Chance Act requires that employers do this prior to seeking information related to an applicant or employee's criminal history.
What is provide a conditional offer of employment?
One of the original 27 counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood, this originally intended name for Contra Costa County was changed prior to incorporation as a County.
What is Mt. Diablo County?
This 1971 US Supreme Court decision was fundamental in establishing the legal precedent requiring that minimum qualification requirements must be "reasonably related" to the job.
What is Griggs v. Duke Power Co.?
The 2016 revisions to this California law provides employees with the ability to use up to half of their sick leave for the care of a family member without medical certification.
What is Kin Care?
This 2018 US Supreme Court decision ruled that it is a violation of First Amendment rights to require public employees to pay a fee to a union if they do not wish to be members.
What is the Janus decision?
The Gallup State of the American Workplace 2017 report said this about 33% of workers.
What are engaged employees?
The meaning of the County's name and it's origin.
What is "opposite coast", referring to it's position on the other side of the bay from San Francisco?
This violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is sometimes referred to as the 4/5th or 80% rule.
What is adverse impact?
This California Fair Employment & Housing Act (FEHA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirement is triggered when an employer becomes aware that an employee may have a mental or physical impairment that limits his/her ability to the job.
What is the Interactive Process?
The formal process through which an employee or group of employees can allege a violation of a workplace policy or contract terms.
What is a grievance?
The California law that went into effect on January 1, 2018 that prohibits employers from asking job applicants for salary history information, and requires California employers to provide applicants with a pay scale for a position upon "reasonable request."
What is Assembly Bill (AB) 168?
The term that describes the form of governance under which the California State Constitution recognizes Contra Costa County.
What is a general law county?
This set of principles applies to all selection procedures used to make employment decisions.
What are the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures?
The maximum amount of leave provided under the Pregnancy Disability Leave law in California.
What is 16 weeks (4 months)?
The 1968 California statute that regulates public employer-employee communications over wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employement.
What is the Meyer-Millias-Brown Act (MMBA?)
The percentage of millennial employees expected to be in the workforce in 2020.
What is 35%?