Columbia Employment positions ordinance (§ 19-156)

(a) A permanent employee position is one created and intended to exist for at least one budget year and which is budgeted for at least one thousand forty (1,040) hours. A permanent employee position may be either part-time or full-time.

(b) A temporary employee position is one created and intended to exist for less than one thousand four hundred fifty (1,450) hours in any calendar year. Temporary employees have no seniority, grievance, or appeal privileges. Temporary employees shall have no benefits except as required by law, provided, however, that temporary employees may quality for LAGERS retirement under the rules of the LAGERS retirement system. A temporary employee position may be either full- or part-time.