Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 11 - Administrative Services Department
Title IV - Human Resources
Chapter 59 - Promotion, Transfer, Temporary Assignment, Reassignment and Voluntary Demotion
Rule 11-59.5 - Transfer

Transfers are restricted to the movement of an employee to a vacant position of the same or different job class in the same pay grade. Transfers may be interagency or intra-agency. To be eligible to transfer, the employee must meet any minimum qualifications and selective requirements for the position. Vacancies must be filled in accordance with 11-Chapter 56.

An employee may request a voluntary transfer. The decision to grant or deny a request for voluntary transfer is made by the receiving appointing authority.

An appointing authority may involuntarily transfer an employee. To do so, any applicable collective bargaining agreement provisions regarding transfer must first be exhausted. Involuntary interagency transfers require the approval of both the sending and the receiving appointing authorities.

If the transfer of an employee would result in the loss of merit system coverage, the transfer shall not take place without the affected employee's written consent to the change in merit system coverage. A copy of the consent letter shall be forwarded by the appointing authority to the director. If the employee does not consent to the change in coverage, a reduction in force may be initiated in accordance with these rules or the applicable collective bargaining agreement.