2025-09-26 Merit Appeal Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board September 26, 2025 MS. TOKIHIRO: So, for the new web guidelines you need to have, like, all text for every picture, the contrast and color of how things are presented. It has to meet certain criteria. So, very detailed rules, just to ensure that the web content can be easily understood by anyone who has any type of disability. So, making sure that things are clear in description and even the contrast—that was really interesting to me, in like the contrast and the color—being mindful of that; certain fonts because certain screen readers cannot properly see certain fonts—so it’s bringing all of that into compliance. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, good. Thank you very much. So, the questions that I have are for the Labor Relations Division. I noticed the Manager is providing guidance—as she usually does— and then she’s contemplating using a newsletter to provide more information and general guidance. I raised the question before but I—we didn’t get an answer. So, is it this division or another division—how do the departments know how to apply relatively equal? You were going to check. MS. TOKIHIRO: So, that would be Recruitment—but then, also, Labor Relations. CHR. CABANAS: Labor—so it’s both. MS. TOKIHIRO: It’s both, yes. CHR. CABANAS: So, do they provide that training to the departments because it’s in the Collective Bargaining contract— MS. TOKIHIRO: Right. CHR. CABANAS: —for interview scoring, it’s there—that concept is there. So, are they providing guidance to the departments? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. And how do they do that? MS. TOKIHIRO: So, through—usually, it’s going to be departments that are inquiring with us, when they don’t know how to apply it. So, there isn’t specific training to relatively equal. CHR. CABANAS: Oh, there isn’t. MS. TOKIHIRO: No. CHR. CABANAS: Not even as part of the interview training? Page 5