Will this new hiring freeze affect CHP?

[Mom]

Statewide Hiring Freeze (http://www.kcra.com/politics/26878323/detail.html)


Brown Orders Statewide Hiring Freeze

California Faces $25B Deficit



SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday issued a hiring freeze across state government in an effort to save money. http://www.kcra.com/images/structures/buttons/button_enlarge.gif
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“We have a $25 billion deficit, and we must do everything possible to save money and make government leaner and more efficient,” Brown said in a prepared statement.The hiring freeze is comprehensive, applying to vacant, seasonal and full-time and part-time positions. It prohibits hiring outside contractors to compensate for the hiring freeze, converting part-time positions into full-time positions and transferring employees between agencies and departments.

[Bolo4u]

It doesn't appear to affect hiring related to public safety/emergency response.

[AyatollahGondola]

1. State agencies and departments are prohibited from filling vacant positions, regardless of the positions’ funding source, except as provided for herein. This prohibition applies to:
• Appointments of any persons not currently employed by the State, including permissive reinstatements, limited-term appointments, temporary-authorization appointments, training-and-development assignments, and retired-annuitant appointments.
• Increases in time base.
• Appointments of seasonal employees.
• Appointments of permanent intermittent employees.
• Interdepartmental transfers of current permanent or probationary employees.

2. Agency secretaries and department directors who do not report to an agency secretary are authorized to exempt the following appointments:
• Emergency appointments as specified in law.
• Mandatory reinstatements.
• Appointments of employees currently serving a temporary-authorization appointment in lieu of permanent appointment.
• Intradepartmental transfers of current permanent or probationary employees.

3. Agency secretaries and department directors who do not report to an agency secretary may request exemption for appointments that are essential to carry out the following responsibilities if the responsibilities cannot be fulfilled by existing staffing levels:
• Direct, hands-on services to clients in 24-hour care institutions.
• Emergency response and public safety defined as services and functions directly related to the preservation and protection of human life and safety; emergency and disaster response activities that are necessary to prevent, contain, or mitigate the effects of a disastrous event and minimize the loss of life or property.
• Revenue generation.
• Core functions of departments’ statutory missions.
• Essential functions that could otherwise only be fulfilled by paying existing employees more in overtime than the costs of the requested exemption.
Requests for exemptions shall be submitted to the Governor’s Office for approval in accordance with forms and instructions that will be issued by the Department of Finance.

4. State agencies and departments are prohibited from initiating or increasing personal-services contracts to compensate for the effects of these hiring restrictions.

5. The Department of Finance will work with agencies and departments to develop targets for budgetary reductions in lieu of the hiring restrictions. Departments that achieve their target budget reductions, as determined by the Director of the Department of Finance, will be exempted from the provisions of this executive order.

6. IT IS REQUESTED that other entities of State government not under my direct executive authority implement similar limitations on their appointments to reduce State expenditures.

This Executive Order is not intended to create, and does not create, any rights or benefits, whether substantive or procedural, or enforceable at law or in equity, against the State of California or its agencies, departments, entities, officers, employees, or any other person.

I FURTHER DIRECT that as soon as hereafter possible, this Order shall be filed with the Office of the Secretary of State and that it be given widespread publicity and notice.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 14th day of February 2011

[AyatollahGondola]

It doesn't appear to affect hiring related to public safety/emergency response.
The way I read it, they have to request an exemption, so it does apply.

[Bolo4u]

The way I read it, they have to request an exemption, so it does apply.

Ah, So it does... I misread the wrong section... Oh well

[rufio11]

So this kinda hiring question is ok? Cause I've gotten flak for a lot less.:doubt:

Can we get someone that has the right and power to give us a yes or no to this question....

[AyatollahGondola]

So this kinda hiring question is ok? Cause I've gotten flak for a lot less.:doubt:

Can we get someone that has the right and power to give us a yes or no to this question....

Absolutely. Call the governor :biggrin:

[CAHPDist2X]

Factor in the fact that when the Governor says, "It is requested..." to an apponted position...well it is like "Should" in policy.:sad:

[CHOCCHP]

:-( well I won't quit my day job.... Just yet :-)

[highway sentinel]

So this kinda hiring question is ok? Cause I've gotten flak for a lot less.:doubt:

Can we get someone that has the right and power to give us a yes or no to this question....


This is apples and oranges in regards to the types of "hiring" questions admin is talking about. This is merely discussion of a news article and whether or not it affects the acquisition of new employees in the public safety sector.

[alcezmee]

:-( well I won't quit my day job.... Just yet :-)

We just need to wait it out a little longer if this is what "WE" really want in life. 2 years and counting but the rewards will be endless once we accomplish our goal.