2024-06-25 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

Home

Merit Appeals Board June 25, 2024 although you may have this open on a continuous basis, part of the merit system is to provide promotional opportunity for our employees, right. So, are—is your—is the department planning to have this announced internally first for your employees? That's what I'm asking. MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. So, the program has been announced to the whole County that it exists. And so, when we get—what we're waiting for right now is a memo from a department telling us that they're ready to provide this opportunity. So, we will release the program to the whole County we're looking for that feedback from departments to say, "Hey, we want to take advantage of this opportunity." So, yes, we could run an internal recruitment first. I think for a lot of—well, for some of our employees it may be because they're temporary positions, they may not choose to go that route, but they are eligible. Current employees are eligible. MS. BOND: You're talking about the continuous one versus this Professional Development Trainee thing, which was (inaudible). CHR. CABANAS: Well—no. My concern is that—'cause your terminology is "could." So, in other words, they don't have to go the internal routeI guess, what I'm trying to really say is bottom line—give the opportunity first to the employees. Because you could have an employee with a AS degree in accounting who could qualify for this Professional Development Trainee and then apply for the Accountant Igo through that whole track—Account Clerk, Professional Development Trainee, and get experience for Accountant I. But, this way, if they're going to apply on a continuous recruitment, they're competing with members of the public. MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. And so, it's a little—it's separate. So the Professional Development Trainees are separate from these continuous recruitments, but the Professional Development Trainee positions, it's 10 positions within the HR budget. And so, our policy in HR is always to run recruitments internally within the County first. So, we always try and offer opportunities within the department first, and then if there's no interest in the department, then we go to the Countywide, and then open competitive is after that. So, yes, we'll run it the way that we would run all of our advertisements for our department. So, the department has—well, there's— CHR. CABANAS: Okay, I'm still confused, Sommer. I'm sorry, but it's like you're talking about your department 10 positions but it's not necessarily in Human Resources, right? If it's an Account Clerk, it could be in Finance, it could be in Water Supply Page 10