Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a)
Politics prohibited. Politics prohibited shall include the
following:
(1) No employe of the Commission
shall be a member of or delegate or alternate to any political convention, nor
shall he participate at any such convention, except in the performance of his
official duty or as a visitor.
(2)
No employe of the Commission shall serve as a member of any committee of any
political party, or take an active part in political management or in political
campaigns, or use his office or position to influence political
movements.
(3) No employe of the
Commission shall circulate or seek signatures to any nominations or other
petition required by any primary or election law, nor shall he seek or accept
election, nomination, or appointment as an officer of a political club or
organization, or serve as a member of a committee of any such club or
organization.
(4) No employe of the
Commission shall in any manner participate in or interfere with the conduct of
any election or the preparation therefor at the polling place or with the
election officers while counting the votes or returning the election material
to the place provided by law for that purpose, save only for the purpose of
making and depositing his own ballot as speedily as it reasonably can be
done.
(5) The rights of individual
Commission employes are not impaired hereby, and the prerogative to attending
meetings, to hear or see any candidate or nominee, and to express one's
individual opinion, shall remain inviolate.
(b)
Discrimination
prohibited. The Commissioners and the Executive Director will not
discriminate against any person in recruitment, appointment, training,
promotion, retention, or any other personnel action with respect to the
Commission because of political or religious opinions or affiliations, or
because of race, national origin, sex or age.
(c) A person in the employ of the Commission
who knowingly violates a provision of this section shall be separated and
removed from the Commission. An employe so separated and removed shall have all
rights of hearing and appeal as provided in this chapter.
This section cited in 37 Pa. Code §
127.2 (relating to hiring
policy).
