2024-02-23 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board February 23, 2024 private vocational rehabilitation counselor that would assist them to identify work outside of County employment. But they could also request to be put on the Select Priority List, so that in the event that an appropriate position came up in a three-year period, they could still be considered for rehire. So, our obligation to our employees is to return them to suitable, gainful employment whether that's with the County or with another employer. We're very fortunate that having 3,000 employees having these different operational and business needs that we are able to find placements. In some cases people will elect to retire, maybe pursue medial disability retirement based on whatever their status is. So, there's a variety of ways that those situations are addressed. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Sommer. Any questions for the Director? Ms. Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Yes, and one other—and it goes back to the numbers game. Do you, by any chance, track a applicant from the time they apply and the time because they are considered qualified—and the time they are actually hired? Because that's one of the things I hear in the community all the time is they'd love to work at the County but it takes way too long. So, I was just wondering if there's any mechanism by which you can actually track—and I realize there're a bunch of people on the way that get tossed, but those you can go from Point A to sitting at the desk or driving a truck or whatever it might be. Is there any way to track that number? MS. TOKIHIRO: There is. There's a time to hire report that we can pull from our NeoGov system and NeoGov actually breaks it down at the different steps, so that we're able to see the amount of time it takes to screen an application and then when a referred list is sent to the department—you can see how it's—where it breaks—not where it breaks down, but how it breaks down between the different steps. And so, it's kind of a new report that our Recruitment and Examination Division has been looking at but it's, definitely, something that we want to look closer at because there're some terms that, again, NeoGov is using for different stages in the process that I'm not sure that we're fully understanding what that means. But I believe the time to hire—it's about four months, at this point. Those were the numbers that we were given but, again, that's there are times—it's hard with statistics when there are times that we may refer a list of eligible applicants to a department and for whatever reason they're not able they're not ready to interview at that point. And so, that's kind of skewing that number as far as time to hire versus a situation where someone submits their application, and then we assess their eligibility, refer the eligible list, interview happens, they are hired. So, the actual amount of time that that process should take versus the different—the amount of time it takes for the different steps is yeah, those are different numbers. Page 25