Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Subtitle 1 - STATE OF HAWAII HUMAN RESOURCES RULES
Chapter 1 - GENERAL CIVIL SERVICE PROVISIONS; DEFINITIONS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL CIVIL SERVICE PROVISIONS
Section 14-1-3 - General responsibilities of director
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 14-1-3
Current through August, 2024
The director shall:
(1) Be responsible to the governor for the proper application of the civil service law and all other applicable statutes.
(2) Exercise and provide leadership in human resources matters throughout the state service.
(3) Develop and promulgate policies, rules, standards, guidelines, and procedures applicable to the state service, designed to promote the efficiency of the state service governing such matters as the following:
(A) Classification and related
systems to support sound utilization of human resources, recruitment of
qualified personnel, and appropriate pay and pay relationships amongst
personnel;
(B) A civil service
merit-based recruitment system;
(C)
A performance appraisal system for the purpose of evaluating the performance of
employees in the civil service and improving employees' performance, consistent
with chapter
76-41, Hawaii Revised
Statutes;
(D) An incentive and
service awards program for the purpose of recognizing employees who contribute
to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement of government operations or
who perform exceptionally meritorious special acts or services in the public
interest in connection with or related to their official employment, consistent
with the policies of the governor;
(E) Orderly, uniform, and fair procedures for
the non-disciplinary separation of employees from the state service;
(F) Circumstances under which civil service
positions may be excepted from the civil service classification system and/or
civil service recruitment system;
(G) Pay administration system which provides
for the proper compensation of employees and adjustments thereto as
necessitated by personnel movements and employment actions;
(H) A leave program whereby employees may be
reasonably excused from work for rest, recreation, health, and other
purposes;
(I) Administration of a
program for employee work hours and observance of holidays and a system under
which the pay of employees may be adjusted for certain hours, days or
conditions of work;
(J) A program
to establish and maintain medical requirements and require medical examinations
in order to:
(i) Ensure that persons seeking
employment in the civil service system meet the physical and mental
requirements necessary for the safe and efficient performance of the duties of
the position for which they are being hired and can be expected to continue to
meet physical and mental requirements for continued employment.
(ii) Ensure that each employee is able to
perform their duties satisfactorily and without undue hazard to the employee or
others or without undue hardship on the operation of the program. Medical
requirements and examinations shall include, but need not be limited to,
pre-employment medical examinations, return to work examinations, medical
re-evaluations, the method of administration of medical examinations, and the
consequences of employees failing to meet physical and mental requirements in
order to perform their duties.
(K) A program for placing employees who are
medically unqualified to perform their usual and customary job because of a
work related or non-work related injury;
(L) Establishing safety and health standards
to ensure safe places of employment and compliance with all applicable safety,
health and workers' compensation laws, executive orders, policies, procedures,
standards and guidelines;
(M) A
recruitment incentive program that offers travel and transportation expenses or
monetary incentives to persons employed or appointed to critical-to-fill and
labor shortage positions. Permissible expenditures will be covered by
guidelines issued by the director;
(N) Pay programs and/or alternate programs
that will help to attract and retain efficient and effective employees in State
government;
(O) A probation period
that shall be used as a test to determine an employee's fitness and ability for
employment in the civil service and the position;
(P) Conditions under which non-civil service
appointments may be made.
(4) Maintain an adequate system of review to determine that equitable and sound application of statutes, executive orders, policies, rules, standards, guidelines and procedures relating to human resources management is being carried out by the department. Whenever the review reveals failure on the part of a department to comply with established principles and directives, the director shall take actions as may be appropriate to obtain compliance therewith.
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