Title 4, Public Officers and Employees

(a) During the active period of eligibility for enhanced placement, all registered individuals shall be afforded to fill a vacant classified position announced as “Open” through enhanced placement. A registered individual that applies for an “Open” vacant classified position shal…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, former Guam Telephone Authority employees who had previously registered with the Department of Administration and have not been placed under the Enhanced Placement Program, whether or not they have been placed pursuant to compe…

(a) I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to employers with fifteen (15) or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment…

As specified in this Chapter, employees in the context of Equal Employment Opportunity complaints involving sexual harassment as defined by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and this Article shall include all classified and unclassified employees of the Executive Branch o…

For purposes of this Article, “sexual harassment” shall include: (a) sexual harassment as defined by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; (b) unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when: COL 20…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rules or regulations unclassified, contractual, temporary and other non-classified employees may file complaints for sexual harassment in the same manner that classified employees may file such complaints. Unclassified, contractual, tem…

Complaints of sexual harassment filed pursuant to this Article shall be audited periodically in the same manner as complaints filed by classified employees.

No person, including witnesses and counselors, and confidants of the victim; who reports any incident of sexual harassment, or suspected sexual harassment, to a supervisor, agency head, director, the Department of Administration, the Civil Service Commission, the Guam Attorney Ge…

The time frame to file complaints of sexual harassment, or suspected sexual harassment, shall be the later of two (2) years following the incident, or those time frames established by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The right to file complaints shall not be e…

All personnel rules and regulations on sexual harassment that are applicable to the agency or branch for which the victim is employed shall apply to unclassified, contractual, temporary, and other non- classified employees. In the event that an agency or office is not covered by …

Article 1A of Title 4, Guam Code Annotated, is hereby created to make its title the Military Family Leave Act of Guam (MFLAG) and throughout the Chapter the acronym MFLAG will be referred to as this Act.

In order to serve the families of those troops currently serving in military conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world, serving in the Global War on Terrorism, and to assure that these families are able to spend time together during the qualified service member’s l…

The following definitions shall be used in interpreting this Article. (a) “Qualified Employee” means a person who satisfies all of the following: (1) Is the spouse, authorized representative, designated next of kin, or attorney-in-fact of a qualified member. (2) Performs service …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a qualified employer may allow a qualified employee to take up to fifteen (15) days of unpaid leave during a qualified leave period.

(a) A qualified employer shall not retaliate against a qualified employee for requesting or taking the leave provided for in this Section. (b) The leave provided for in this Section shall not affect or prevent a qualified employer from allowing a qualified employee to take a leav…

(a) Benefits under 16 GCA, Chapter 3, § 3102.1 (Waiver of Driver’s License Fee provided to all Veterans), and 16 GCA, Chapter 7, § 7160 (e) and § 7161 (f), and 10 GCA, Chapter 51, § 51506 (d) (Waiver of Annual Vehicle License and Registration Fees provided to Veterans with one hu…

(a) The Guam Office of Veterans Affairs (OVA) shall be responsible for certifying eligibility of spouses, surviving spouses or legal guardians applying for the derived benefits; and (b) the Department of Revenue and Taxation, the Department of Administration, and the Human Resour…

Benefits extended to a spouse eligible under this Article, shall continue for as long as that individual is legally married to the Veteran who is eligible for the benefits. If the marriage is terminated by divorce, eligibility for the benefits shall end on the date of the adjudic…

Benefits extended to a Surviving Spouse eligible under this Article, shall continue for a period of ten (10) years from the date of death of service member.

Benefits extended to a Legal Guardian eligible under this Article, shall continue for the periods as follows: (a) until minor children for which the guardian is legally responsible for, reach the age of eighteen (18) or until the age of twenty-three (23), if enrolled as a full-ti…

The extension of “derived benefits” shall be applicable to the eligible spouses, surviving spouses, and legal guardians, as defined in § 67101 of Chapter 67, Title 10, Guam Code Annotated, of Veterans who COL 2026-04-23 served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, the Kor…