2024-06-25 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board June 25, 2024 So, this is bridging that gap so that it—so that they can get on that—their trajectory through the Professional Trainee position or in some other positions. CHR. CABANAS: But it's not a smooth process because at the end of the two years, do you think HGEA is going to say, "Okay, the person finished the two-year program, had no job to go to"—and HGEA loses that member. They're not going to be happy with that. And then, the person can be employed by another employer in the private sector. You had County—see, that's the difference between Workforce Development where Charlie worked—and where I worked in the County, where you work in the County—it's still County funds. They had federal funds. They had federal funds to train people for part of Workforce Development, you see. The County is still dishing out money to train people. You're saying going from BU3—but if the person is a member of public, they weren't in BU3. They were out in the public. They're not a County employee. And they go they can yes, go into this BU3 and try for BU13 but there's still no progression. You can lose somebody at two years using County funding. I don't care if it's HR funding or another department, it's still County money. And the County is not in a position to lose people after training them for two years that's my concern. MS. TOKIHIRO: And I hear you and I understand, but that's also happening throughout our departments through regular positions where we're investing time in training people for all of our open positions and then whether it's due to personal choices—sometimes personal circumstances or sometimes people find positions in the private sector, move to a different stateso I hear you. But we're already experiencing that in our normal positions that are filled and you can see later when we discuss the results from—as part of my MAB goals you can see the turnover that the County is facing or has dealt with just in general. So, yeah, people are free to choose where they want to work and sometimes yes, so in this case, it could be that we invest in two years of training and someone goes to another employer. Ideally, after that investment—and that's why these this money was actually put into our budget because the—as the County, we want to try and develop this new talent pipeline that didn't exist before. So, because right now, if you don't have the qualifications for the Professional Trainee, we're not helping you to get that. You have to go and get that someplace else and then come back in and see us later when you meet the requirements. MS. MATHEWS: Did you pattern this off of something that already existed or several somethings that existed? MS. TOKIHIRO: No. This is MS. MATHEWS: This is entirely Page 19