Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 1 - EXECUTIVE ORDERS › Section 1:2011-11A

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
I, Mary Fallin, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, pursuant to
			 the power and authority vested in me by the provisions of Subsection D of
			 Section
			 840-2.14
			 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, hereby order a state agency hiring
			 freeze.
For purposes of this hiring freeze, each statewide elected
			 official shall perform the duties of a Cabinet Secretary in approving or
			 disapproving exemptions to this hiring freeze. These duties shall be
			 accomplished in the same manner as other official actions by the elected
			 officials.
This hiring freeze shall be implemented by all agencies in
			 accordance with the following guidelines:
1. It is my direction that no audits of
		  classified positions or reallocation of unclassified positions shall be
		  initiated or conducted at the request of any agency unless specifically
		  approved by the appropriated Cabinet Secretary.
2. All audits resulting from a classification
		  grievance shall be exempted from the provisions of this Executive
		  Order.
3. Except as specifically
		  provided and authorized by this order, all affected state agencies are
		  prohibited from hiring, reinstating, or promoting employees and from accepting
		  a transferred employee from another agency.
4. Exceptions to this hiring freeze may be
		  granted pursuant to special conditions as declared by the Chief Administrative
		  Officer of any agency and approved by the appropriate Cabinet Secretary for
		  that agency. However, information technology positions, regardless of the
		  Cabinet area of which the individual is employed, shall be approved or
		  disapproved by the Secretary of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
		  The information technology positions subject to this exception includes, but
		  are not limited to, both classified and unclassified positions in the following
		  functional areas: Applications Programming, EDP Audit, Data Examination,
		  Computer Applications, Computer Data Entry, Computer Networking, Computer
		  Operations, Computer Programming, Computer Security, Computer Software Design,
		  Web Applications, Data Base Analysis, Data Management Analysis, Data Base
		  Development, Data Base Programming, Software Design/Development, Help Desk,
		  Imaging, Systems Analysis, Systems Application Planning, Systems Application,
		  Systems Administration, Systems Coordination, Systems Integration, Systems
		  Operation, Systems Planning/Development, Systems Programming, Systems
		  Engineering, Systems Services Specialist, Systems Support, Network
		  Administration, Network Management, Network Technical, Operating Systems
		  Specialist, Systems, Program Manager, Telecommunications (Data and Voice),
		  Software Training, and Technology Development/Support.
a. A Chief Administrative Officer shall
		  submit a written request to the appropriate Cabinet Secretary stating the
		  special conditions requiring the submission of the request.
b. Such requests may be on forms provided by
		  the Office of Personnel Management. If an agency has an internal form regularly
		  used by that agency which provides all the necessary information, that form may
		  be used in lieu of the Office of Personnel Management forms if approved by the
		  Director of the Office of State Finance.
c. The Cabinet Secretary shall indicate
		  approval in writing of the submitted request for the granting of an exception
		  of this hiring freeze.
d. All
		  approved requests and approved Cabinet Secretary findings shall be maintained
		  as an official record by the Office of Personnel Management in accordance with
		  Records Management Act. Any agency which does not submit personnel action
		  requests for approval to the Office of Personnel Management shall be
		  responsible for maintaining this documentation.
e. In the event of a vacancy in a Cabinet
		  Secretary position, the Secretary of State shall act as the approving authority
		  for the hiring freeze exception request.
f. Effective November 1, 2011, all requests
		  for hiring freeze exceptions for agencies reporting to the Secretary of Human
		  Resources and Administration shall be directed to the Secretary of Finance and
		  Revenue who shall have the authority to review and approve those
		  requests.