The Department is responsible for examining candidates for State jobs on the basis of merit, efficiency, and fitness. It classifies all positions in the classified civil service, and establishes rates of pay for all these positions. One of the Department s responsibilities is to maintain a trained corps of career workers who carry on the work of State government regardless of changes in political leadership. The State civil service merit system is provided for in Article XI, Section 5 of the State Constitution of 1963. The civil service commission may exempt three additional positions of a policy-making nature within each principal department.
Teams provide customized services to meet all agencies human resource needs.
Employment Relations Board. This board reviews and adjudicates appeals of decisions involving personnel and labor relations issues and resolves disputes between the State and employee organizations. The board also conducts annual coordinated pay hearings for nonexclusively represented employees. Human Resource Development. This division provides services and training for State agencies and their employees to promote customer service awareness, performance competence, and personnel development.