Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
1. The MMS
recognizes the unique nature of confidential executive and management positions
in State Government, the importance of strong management, the need to provide
greater flexibility and responsibility for managers in hiring, employee
development, performance management, and career advancement. The MMS includes
all confidential executives and managers who directly manage Maine's public
service programs, serve as a manager or consultant in management support
functions, and confidential employees who provide advice and assistance to
executives as a member of an agency's senior management team. The MMS
recognizes that human resource decisions, including hiring process and salary
considerations, are best handled by individual agencies in an environment that
preserves fairness, statewide equity and merit principles for classified
confidential managers.
2. This
chapter is intended to incorporate the following goals:
A. A simplified classification system that
facilitates movement of managers between agencies and promotes upward
mobility.
B. A compensation system
that provides flexibility in setting and changing salaries.
C. Strengthened management training and
career development programs that build managerial and leadership competencies;
focusing on managing and valuing workplace diversity; empowering employees by
enabling them to share in workplace decision making, and to be innovative,
willing to take risks, and able to accept and deal with change; promoting a
workplace where the overall focus is on the recipient of the government
services and how these services can be improved; and enhancing mobility and
career advancement opportunities.
D. Flexible, timely recruitment and hiring
procedures that enable agencies to compete effectively with other employers,
both public and private, for managers with appropriate skills and training;
allowing consideration of qualified candidates for positions as managers; and
achieving affirmative action goals and diversity in the workplace.
E. Provisions that managers may only be
dismissed, suspended, or demoted for cause.
F. Facilitation of decentralized and regional
administration.
G. Preserves merit
principles and ensures that decisions are not based on nepotism, patronage or
political considerations.
3. Except as otherwise provided, this chapter
applies only to classified confidential employees who meet the definition of
manager. Manager or managerial employee means the incumbent of a position that
is assigned as follows:
A. Formulates
state-wide policy or directs the work of an agency or agency subdivision,
or;
B. Administers one or more
state-wide policies or programs of an agency or agency subdivision,
or;
C. Has substantial
responsibility in personnel administration, legislative relations, public
information, or;
D. Prepares and
administers budgets.
