2025-03-13 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board March 13, 2025 CHR. CABANAS: Mm-hmm. MS. TOKIHIRO: And I believe it's $1,000.00. It might be $2,000.00. CHR. CABANAS: Do they —I've been seeing their ads on social media. Do they state that I don't recall seeing that? MS. TOKIHIRO: It's posted on the job posting. CHR. CABANAS: Posting MS. TOKIHIRO: I'm not sure if their social media is advertising it. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah. Okay. MS. TOKIHIRO: But it's on the job posting. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah, that's good. There's one last thing and, actually, it's a Board concern. It's this is not an evaluation, this is not the time for an evaluation. But because we've had two major appeal hearings where can —recruitments were cancelled after individuals were hired or promoted —our Board members had some concerns. I just want to make a general statement, actually, or open it up to the Board because we feel that when a recruitment is posted and later individuals are hired, especially in the last two appeals, the real recent ones we had, recently. We feel that recruitments shouldn't be cancelled because it just creates negative consequences, not only for the departments affected, but also for the employees that were hired and promoted. And so, I just want to make that statement, and I know you might have had reasons for it but, historically, that's something that has never occurred in the department, especially when people are hired. To cancel a recruitment because a department wants it cancelled —let's say there's no vacancy no longer exists, that's a different circumstance but when people are hired and they're now serving a probationary period, that concerns the Board. So, I just wanted to make that statement and we'll talk more about it later at a more appropriate time. Yeah. MS. TOKIHIRO: And I will just say, I agree with you that cancellation of recruitments is very —it's unusual. It does —we cancel recruitments if we find that there's an error in the job posting. For example, we had a CDL Driver License Examiner 11 recruitment and the class specification had changed. And, unfortunately, the position was advertised, they used the incorrect one. We caught that before moving forward with the process so the recruitment was cancelled and the correct class specification was used. So, again, different scenario then what occurred in the situations with the last two appeals. But, yes, it's very rare, very different extenuating circumstances in both —but definitely not something that we or I seek out or toI don't take that lightly. It wasI had to make decisions Page 23