Merit standards for personnel management actions

Any personnel management actions taken under the provisions of this chapter shall comply with merit standards as follows: (1) Recruiting, selecting, and advancing civil service employees through open consideration of qualified applicants for initial appointments and promotions. Selection of qualified applicants is based on relative ability, knowledge, and skills; (2) Providing equitable and adequate compensation; (3) Training civil service employees to assure high quality performance; (4) Retaining civil service employees based on performance, correcting inadequate performance, and separating employees whose performance cannot be improved; and (5) Assuring fair treatment without regard to age, political affiliation, race, color, national origin, sex, or religious creed. Source: SL 2012, ch 23 , § 43; SL 2019, ch 21 , § 28.