2022-03-10 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board March 10, 2022 d) HR Staffing Update MR. LEOPOLDINO: The next item on the director's report "HR Staffing Update"I can't remember if I mentioned it at the last meeting, but we brought on Danny Patel as our EO and ADA Manager. I think I did the presentation `cause we hadn't filled that position at that time when we did the presentation. So, Danny came on board in December—December 16''. So, that filled our last manager vacancy that we had. And, at some point, I'd like him to have that same opportunity for him to come in and meet you all and do a quick presentation on all the great stuff he's already been doing. We have two vacant positions that are not filled at this time in our Transactions or Administrative Services Division, we have an HR Tech, vacancy. I've administratively assigned that position to Recruitment through June 30'h as Recruitment is needing assistance. They are bombarded with applications that need to be screened. They need assistance with conducting written exams. It's been very, very busy in Recruitment, `cause a lot of positions are—although they're on "continuous" they get a lot of applications but many of the applications we get are for people that really are not qualified, but the applications still have to get screened. Our Workers' Compensation Division has a Work Comp. Specialist III position, which I administratively assigned to Labor. We brought that down to an HR Specialist L We're going to be assigning it Labor to assist with all the grievances we've been getting to help the Labor manager bring all that stuff down and all the paperwork and things in order for that division. We were awarded—we put in a proposal for a Safety Specialist I for that upcoming fiscal year to be assigned to our Health and Safety Division. I'm sure if you remember Ryan Chong is the Manager there. The addition of the Safety Specialist will assist in facilities inspections islandwide, increase in driver training, increase in equipment and safety trainingso, we're going to expand the program there. We also put in a request for an HR Specialist Ia permanent HR Specialist I for our Labor Division. With the COVID-19 and with everything going on, we've seen an increase in grievances, which is kind of overwhelming for the Labor manager, so this HR Specialist will be assigned, if we do get the position—will be assigned to Labor. And, as of right now, Labor is there's one person just the Labor Manager managing that Division. Then we have an HR Assistant that will share the clerical duties for both Labor and Recruitment. Let's see, that's all the main pieces to our HR staffing. We are running short on space significantly running short on space. We just built out a new cubicle in our office. But, as of right now, we're pretty maxed out. We need the help but we're maxed out. So, we're trying to be creative so that we can have the appropriate staff and support. That's all I have for our staffing update. Page 24