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Merit Appeals Board <br />May 23, 2025 <br />CHR. CABANAS: Niel? <br />MR. THOMAS: I was going to ask you a question about Classification and Pay, but it's really a <br />question of what's the scope of this activities just like it goes on and on and on and never ends, <br />`cause you loop around and get back to the beginning before you're finished. <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Well, "yes" and "no." I mean, it's kind of an ongoing thing that it's a <br />moving target —that they've (inaudible) of our overall class specification and they have to ensure <br />equal pay for equal work in accordance with the HRS. <br />And so, it's really defining what that class of work is. They set the initial pricing for that and <br />then, after that, it's ongoing review. And then, evaluating if that class needs to be updated in <br />some cases. If they hadn't used the class of work in many years, then the class would be <br />abolished. So, yeah, it's an ongoing process —like most things in HR. <br />MR. THOMAS: It might be nice to know someday how many amendments to these classes of <br />work have to take place in a year and how many class —new classes of work get adopted and <br />attempts toI mean, intents to adopt a new code. <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah, we continue to provide <br />MR. THOMAS: (Inaudible.) <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Pardon? <br />MR. THOMAS: Are there 100 classes of work or 50 or <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Oh, no, there's hundreds and hundreds of classes of work. <br />MR. THOMAS: (Inaudible.) <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. So, (inaudible) continue to provide those stats. on an ongoing basis, so <br />that you folks can see how many amendments we're working and new classes we're adopting. <br />MR. THOMAS: And then in the Health and Safety Division, there's a mention of maintaining <br />electric vehicles. I'm mindful of the national administration's, sort of, going after States and <br />making attempts, it seems, to get States to abolish electric vehicles. Are you feeling any pressure <br />about that here? <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: We haven't, yet. These electric vehicles and some of these initiatives to <br />update our electrical charging stations, were already in place before this change of <br />Administration. So enacting it now we'll stay tuned. <br />Page 6 <br />