3.1 Engineer (NSCL), Physicist (NSCL) and Assistant Professor (NSCL): The initial appointment is for a probationary period of three years. Reappointment for a second three-year probationary period may be recommended.
3.2 Staff Engineer (NSCL), Staff Physicist (NSCL) and Associate Professor (NSCL): The initial appointment is for a probationary period of three years.
3.3 Senior Engineer (NSCL) Senior Physicist (NSCL), and Professor (NSCL): The initial appointment may provide Continuing Status or may be probationary at the option of the Laboratory Director. If probationary, the appointment period is for three years.
3.4 For purposes of achieving a uniform annual cycle, all probationary appointments in the CA System will be considered to have begun on September 1 of the calendar year in which the staff members first CA system appointment began and will end on August 31 of the appropriate later calendar year. If any probationary period is interrupted by leaves of absence of six months or more, the probationary appointment will be extended by an additional year.
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