2021-12-02 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board December 2, 2021 looks at what qualifications these injured employees have and what they can do. And they are given first preference for any opening that they are eligible for. So, we haven't—in the year just about a year that I've been in this position, we haven't had any new employees come into the program. The priority placement program, however, has a six- month limitation where we will do this job search for them. And if we cannot find suitable employment for them, they can be put on the there is another list and I can't remember the name of it. But they can be considered they can request to be considered for other positions. It is another type of list that is given preference when vacancies arise. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Can you just explain, though, the priority that they get with the referral? So, let's say you have a real property appraiser position, you have a police officer who's medically injured or ill, cannot return to his or her usual customary—and now you have a real property appraiser Request to Fill form coming in. Can you explain to the Board what your division does with that Request to Fill form, and you know you have a police officer who meets the minimum qualifications for that job and can do the work in accordance with the doctor's restrictions MS. BOTELHO: Okay. CHR. CABANAS: with his or her report. Can you just explain that so they see the connection? MS. BOTELHO: Sure. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. MS. BOTELHO: So, when departments submit their Request to Fill their positions, they're looking they're not going to know, necessarily know, unless it's a person within their department. So, Police Department is not going to know that we have a person on the priority placement list. So, they're going to submit their Request to Fill—I mean, no, I got to back up. The Department of Finance with this real property appraiser position does not know that we have a police officer who is on the priority placement list. So, the Department of Finance is going to submit their Request to Fill via either an internal recruitment or an open recruitment—that's just for example. When our department gets this, we're going to look—we knowwell, the HR manager will know the staff doesn't necessarily know—if we have people on that priority placement list. If there is, that request will be amended. We are going to refer that priority placement person first. So, we'll contact the department and let them know that we're not going to be conducting a referrala recruitment for you—we have somebody who is on the list for priority placement, Page 22