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212.636 Department employees -- Compensation plan -- Merit system -- Personnel board.

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212.636 Department employees -- Compensation plan -- Merit system -- Personnel board. (1) The board shall establish the compensation plan for all employees of the department, and such compensation shall be as nearly comparable as practicable <br>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, <br>appointment, promotion, transfer, layoff, removal, discipline, compensation, and <br>welfare of the department's employees by establishing a system of personnel <br>administration based on merit principles and scientific methods whereby the rules <br>and regulations of such system shall not be less stringent than those of the merit <br>system of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Such system shall include a <br>personnel board of five (5) members appointed by the board for two (2) year terms. <br>The board shall select as members of the personnel board public-spirited citizens of <br>recognized experience in the improvement of public administration and in the <br>impartial selection of efficient public personnel. The personnel board shall be <br>responsible for establishing rules and regulations for the purpose of governing the <br>administration of the personnel system. The commissioner shall function as <br>appointing authority in and with respect to the personnel matters of the board. The <br>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 <br>employees of the department shall be included within the provisions of the state <br>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 <br>and continued in the service of the department created under KRS 212.626 to <br>212.639. Provided, however, that any and all of such employees who at that time are <br>in the classified service of the city-county department of health shall be continued in <br>the classified service of the department with the same status they have had in the <br>classified service of the city-county department of health. Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 416, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 367, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 188, sec. 207, effective July 15, 1980. -- Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 347, sec. 10, <br>effective July 1, 1977.