2007 Minnesota Statutes

256D.20 TRANSFER OF TOWN EMPLOYEES.
    Subdivision 1. Rules for merit system. The term "merit system" as used herein shall mean
the rules for a merit system of personnel administration for employees of local social services
agencies adopted by the commissioner of human services in accordance with the provisions of
section 393.07, including the merit system established for Hennepin County pursuant to Laws
1965, chapter 855, as amended, the federal Social Security article as amended, and merit system
standards and regulations issued by the federal Social Security Board and the United States
Children's Bureau.
    Subd. 2. Designation of employees. All employees of any municipality or town who are
engaged full time in poor relief work therein on January 1, 1974 shall be retained as employees of
the county and placed under the jurisdiction of its local social services agency.
All transferred employees shall be blanketed into the merit system with comparable status,
classification, longevity, and seniority, and subject to the administrative requirements of the
local social services agency. Employees with permanent status under any civil service provision
on January 1, 1974, shall be granted permanent status under the merit system at comparable
classifications and in accordance with work assignments made under the authority of the local
social services agency as provided by the merit system rules.
The determination of proper job allocation shall be the responsibility of the personnel officer
or director as provided under merit system rules applicable to the county involved with the right
of appeal of allocation to the Merit System Council or personnel board by any employee affected
by this transfer.
All transferred employees shall receive salaries for the classification to which they are
allocated in accordance with the schedule in effect for local social services agency employees
and at a salary step which they normally would have received had they been employed by the
local social services agency for the same period of service they had previously served under the
civil service provisions of any municipality or town; provided, however, that no salary shall be
reduced as a result of the transfer.
All accumulated sick leave of transferred employees in the amount of 60 days or less shall be
transferred to the records of the local social services agency and such accumulated sick leave
shall be the legal liability of the local social services agency. All accumulated sick leave in excess
of 60 days shall be paid in cash to transferred employees by the municipality or town by which
they were employed prior to their transfer, at the time of transfer. In lieu of the cash payment, the
municipality or town shall, at the option of the employee concerned, allow a leave of absence
with pay, prior to transfer, for all or part of the accumulated sick leave.
    Subd. 3. Merit system transfer. Employees of municipalities and towns engaged in the work
of administering poor relief who are not covered by civil service provisions shall be blanketed
into the merit system subject to a qualifying examination. Employees with one year or more
service shall be subject to a qualifying examination and those with less than one year's service
shall be subject to an open competitive examination.
    Subd. 4. Disbursement of vacation time. All vacation leave of employees referred to in
subdivision 2, accumulated prior to their transfer to county employment shall be paid in cash to
them by the municipality or town by which they were employed prior to their transfer, and at
the time of their transfer. In lieu of the cash payment, the municipality or town shall, at the
option of the employee concerned, allow a leave of absence with pay, prior to such transfer, for
all or part of the accumulated vacation time.
History: 1973 c 650 art 21 s 20; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1994 c 631 s 31