212.636 Department employees -- Compensation plan -- Merit system -- Personnel
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(1)The board shall establish the compensation plan for all employees of the
department, and such compensation shall be as nearly comparable as practicable
with the compensation paid to and received by employees in comparable agencies.
(2)The employees of the department shall be employed and governed in accordance
with a merit system. The board shall provide for the recruitment, examination,
appointment, promotion, transfer, lay-off, removal, discipline, compensation, and
welfare of the department's employees by establishing a system of personnel
administration based on merit principles and scientific methods whereby the rules
and regulations of such system shall not be less stringent than those of the merit
system of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Such system shall include a
personnel board of five
(5)members appointed by the board for two
(2)year terms.
The board shall select as members of the personnel board public-spirited citizens of
recognized experience in the improvement of public administration and in the
impartial selection of efficient public personnel. The personnel board shall be
responsible for establishing rules and regulations for the purpose of governing the
administration of the personnel system. The commissioner shall function as
appointing authority in and with respect to the personnel matters of the board. The
board shall have one
(1)year from July 1, 1977, to implement such a system.
(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 61.510 to 61.692 and KRS 78.510 to
78.852, on July 1, 1977, all regular full-time present and future public health
employees of the department shall be included within the provisions of the state
retirement system.
(4)When the board is qualified and organized as provided in KRS 212.626 to 212.639,
all city-county department of health employees at that time shall be transferred to
and continued in the service of the department created under KRS 212.626 to
212.639. Provided, however, that any and all of such employees who at that time are
in the classified service of the city-county department of health shall be continued in
the classified service of the department with the same status they have had in the
classified service of the city-county department of health.