2018-05-09 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board May 9, 2018 MR. BRILHANTE: That—you're absolutely correct. Oftentimes when we look atoh, Mr. Makaio, for example—and I'm only bringing it up `cause his case was on open record although Iso, we look at—"Do I meet, do I have the skillset, the necessary skillset to be a manager?" Always"Oh, how do you gain that?" What's the—"Where do you go to get that skillset?" Because if you don't have it, who's going to hire you? You'll never get through that first hurdle. So, I think, if we open it up County -wide and we open it up to the employees—and, again, they're going to have to coordinate their attendance with their various department heads— CHR. NAHUINA: Yes. MR. BRILHANTE: —and the like—scheduling. I think if we open it up, there will be individuals who are—who have strong desires and are desirous of career advancement. And if we're able to offer these classes to them, I would have to have a specific discussion with our recruitment division to have to sit down and really look closely as to whether or not this supervisor certification can be considered—some type of—given it some type of consideration where it relates to their experience the experience requirements for a manager, that's a discussion that we're going to have later. But, I think my personal feeling is to open it up as to many County employees as possible. CHR. NAHUINA: Very nice. MR. BRILHANTE: I think if we're all, kind of, all on the same page—and we all operate on the same page and we all have a general basic understanding of what the requirements are going forward—more often than not, it's been my experience that dealing through the grievances and the labor issues is more often than not, it's like nobody's doing it—most often people aren't acting intentionally when it comes to an issue that maybe they didn't meet the procedure requirements. I think, oftentimes, the reason they end up in a situation is because they just didn't know. Had they known, they would have done it. And I thinkI see that more often than not, especially with the type of employees we have here. And I think if we can provide that knowledge base, if we can open up their understanding of why these processes are here—what's the necessity for them, and how they affect the employeesI think we just able to provide that knowledge. I think that would go a long ways with helping us just operate more effectively and more efficiently down the road as a governmental body. CHR. NAHUINA: Absolutely. Thank you. MR. BRILHANTE: I think the other thing that you guys are going to have to agree upon is the evaluation as far as sending out the survey. CHR. NAHUINA: Yes. Page 16