2018-05-09 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board May 9, 2018 CHR. NAHUINA: One more question. This certification program for the manager training—is that certification that they would receive—is that a national certification, a public certification, the County what, where is it— MR. t MR. BRILHANTE: That's a very good question. There's no just through our research, there's no real national type certification that we felt would be really applicable here. What we're trying to establish is we're trying to establish a 12 -month training program. And we're looking to offer a coursea monthly course through that program. And as the individual registers for the courses there'll be 12 different courses—one will be job performance evaluation, for example the other one would be conducting proper investigations or the like. And that'll be offered monthly. As the—as each employee completes the necessary courses, whether it be—we're looking at either 8 mandatory courses or 12 or a variation in between those. And as the individual completes that—those courses, then they'll get a County certification letter of recommend letter of certification from the County saying that you've successfully completed the supervisor/manager training program. And we're going to continue to keep those courses offered regularly so each of the managers can come in and do it. And we can't, at this stage, when I had this discussion with the managing director—he's going toI don't have the authority to make it mandatory, but the managing director does. CHR. NAHUINA: Okay. MR. BRILHANTE: And he said he's very—he's in favor of us—of him doing that. And we've already had discussions with him on other topic areas, like, mandatory interview training or mandatory skillset review for hiring—fol lowing some of those issues that arose. And the managing director was very supportive and he instituted mandatory attendance policy for those, and I think we need that. There has to be some bite there— CHR. NAHUINA: Absolutely. MR. BRILHANTE: although nobody's going to sign up for it—"Oh, wow, how I going do this? I'm too busy." Yeah. So, if we make it mandatory, and we say as a new supervisor comes in, they have maybe 18 months to complete the program. `Cause we understand that they're not going to be able to meet every class offering. So, there'll be some latitude. But, I think, the fact that it is mandatory, it is supported by the administrationI think that will go forward with getting participation and a better understanding of the importance. CHR. NAHUINA: And, along with that idea of the certification—oftentimes appeals brought before the Merit Appeals Board deal with not meeting minimum requirements. Is—would these types of certifications or classes be open to people not necessarily in that administrative position so that when they apply, they would have that certification or to meet minimum requirements with—help them. I mean, obviously, it looks good but that's always a concern for people—for the cases that we see here and we see that more often. Page 15