2023-02-17 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board CHR. CABANAS: Okay. February 17, 2023 MR. LEOPOLDINO: Because we haven't diverted from my predecessor's guidance. We're actually going to continue to use that as a determining factor to actually revert back. One of the factors—and I can't remember all three but there's criteria that was left by the previous HR recruitment manager that we still have in place. So, once the criteria is met on those requirements to have written exams, we will revert back and we continue to have discussions about the written exams. It's not something that we're looking to get rid of completely. But, like you said, in the current situation we have the number of applicants is so small that based on the criteria to have a written exam, we have that opportunity to temporarily suspend but we don't have any indication of completely removing the written exams. CHR. CABANAS: So, you would revert back to some of the written exams for certain classes? MR. LEOPOLDINO: I mean, it might not be the exact I mean, we might have a different type of written exam but the factors that we have to look at to determine whether written exam is justified still applies. One of them being if there's an excessive amount of applicants that would definitely guide us in having more written exams. But, as of right now, we don't see any light at the end of the tunnel for us switching back right away because the applicant turnout is still very, very low. But it's something that we're still in discussion and in consideration. So—and we have considered the fact that we're using that term "temporarily suspended"—so it's definitely part of our conversations. CHR. CABANAS : `Cause you have 60 -something -67 continuous recruitment. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: Some never had written exams and some did. And so, that I guess is the concern, like, you may have only 10 qualified applicants today for clerk III. But, let's say, come December this year, you may have 200. I don't know. I'm just using this as a hypothetical. And so, what does the department do when you have 200 applicants? You're still going to say no written exams for clerk III or are you going now say, "Okay, we're going to revert back and administer written exams for clerk III." MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yeah. And as I have more discussions with recruitment, I'd be happy to share those discussions in what they want to do going forward. CHR. CABANAS: And the other thing is, are there discussions with the other jurisdictions? Are they now streamlining what they're doing? And so, I'm not sure if that's taking place, but Page 13