2021-12-02 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board December 2, 2021 MS. BOTELHO: Yes. It's specific to the type of job. Clerk III is going to be general clerical, it's going to contain things like office practices and procedures. For higher level positionsso, maybe I need to back up a little. Our written exams are for entry-level positions. So, clerk III, account clerk—it is not for positions such as civil engineer, or planner, or human resources specialist. So, it's just for entry- level. So, it's pretty baseline and tailored to the position that that examination is for. So, things for a water supply—for waterworks helper—it's going to have something—some questions in there that pertain to what a waterworks helper should know or customer service representative— if s epresentativeit's going to have things in there that somebody who is going to be performing customer service type of work should know. And when we develop the written exams, it's either we use a source that does written exams nationwide and they have a bank of questions that are generally used. If we develif we do not pull everything from that source, we always have a subject matter expert come in and review the exam and make sure that the questions asked are applicable to the position that they're recruiting for and, of course, that the answers are correct. MS. MATHEWS: Thank you. That got me where I needed to be. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Lee. Mr. Kunz, any questions for Lee? MR. KUNZ: No. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Last round—questions for Lee. Lee, I know we kind of took long with your area but I do have one question. MS. BOTELHO: Okay. CHR. CABANAS: And I'm not sure if it's still your area or if it's with workers' comp now but what about job placement for medically injured or ill employees who can never return to their usual and customary job. Is—are you folks still doing the job placement? Is it still under Recruitment and Exam? MS. BOTELHO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: Could you explain, real briefly, to the Board what that entails? MS. BOTLEHO: Sure. The priority placement program is for employees who have a work injury and who can no longer perform their usual job. The example would be a police officer who is injured in the line of duty can no longer perform police work. The County the Count—it is the County's duty to assist this employee or these employees with finding suitable work within our organization. So, the Priority Job Placement Program really Page 21