State Personnel Board Rules
The State Personnel Board is appointed by the Governor to provide policy direction for State personnel administration. The Rules of the State Personnel Board are those policies adopted by the Board and approved by the Governor to serve as a framework for legal compliance and effective talent management across the state. Board Rules generally apply to the Executive Branch of the State, except for the Board of Regents and State Authorities (unless an Authority is specifically covered by statute). Other organizations, such as local departments of Public Health and Community Service Boards, are covered as provided in law.
The Rules have the force and effect of law for covered State organizations. They serve to promote consistency in the implementation of core human resources practices while allowing appropriate flexibility for agencies to tailor their human resources programs for individual efficiency and effectiveness.
Below are links to the Rules of the State Personnel Board. Each shows the most recent revision date in the top right corner.
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State Personnel Board Documents
Rules of the State Personnel Board
Description of membership, organization, functions, powers, and duties of the State Personnel Board.
Definitions of key terms used in State Personnel Board Rules.
Summary of agencies' and employees' obligations in preventing unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
Outlines process for layoff, furlough, or salary reduction for classified or unclassified employees.
Describes process and procedures for amending State Personnel Board Rules.
Guidelines for screening, selecting, and hiring individuals for positions within an agency.
Responsibilites and limitations for employees seeking additional employment outside of current state employment.
Describes which political activities by state employees are permitted and which are limited.
Framework for developing and amending the statewide job classification plan.
Framework for developing and amending the salary structure for state jobs.
Standardizes basis and methods for salary payment and sets parameters for salary adjustments and supplements.
Defines available incentives and award programs and criteria for implementation.
Guidelines for the statewide peformance management program.
Defines promotion, demotion, transfer, relocation, suspension, separation, position level reduction, and staff reduction.
Establishes guidelines for administration of the State's leave programs.
Guidelines for an agency's program for voluntary donation of accrued sick leave to other employees within the same agency.
Guidelines for providing preference to veterans in the initial employment process and during reduction in force actions.
Outlines rights and compensation available to employees who perform "ordered military duty."
Provides guidelines for agencies' complaint resolution programs.
Sets expectations for drug and alcohol-free workplace and outlines the State's testing programs.
Sets forth rules surrounding employee self-disclosure of a substance abuse problem.
Outlines program for pre-employment drug testing for employees in high-risk positions.
Outlines program for random substance abuse testing for employees in high-risk positions.
Outlines substance abuse testing programs for employees in federally regulated transportation positions.
Outlines program for reasonable suspicion substance abuse testing for employees in non-federally regulated positions.
Outlines return-to-duty substance abuse testing program for employees in non-federally regulated positions.
Outlines program for follow-up substance abuse testing for employees in non-federally regulated positions.
Outlines consequences for applicants and employees with illegal drug convictions.
Process for employees to submit and receive rewards for ideas that improve State operations and efficiency.
Policy guidance for implementing federal leave entitlement for qualifying absences.
Establishes probationary period for classified employees.
Process for suspension without pay demotion, disciplinary salary reduction, or dismissal of classified employees.
Defines when classified employees may appeal employment actions and outlines hearing procedures.
Defines presumptive resignation, failure to return from leave, suitable vacancy not available, and forfeiture of position.
Resources
Memorandum from the Office of Planning and Budget on implementation of Annual Leave Conversion Payout.
Summary of SPB Rule modifications 2015-2022.