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Existing law sets forth various requirements and procedures governing the employment of persons in the classified and unclassified service of this State. (Chapter 284 of NRS) Existing law requires the Administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management of the Department of Administration to prepare, maintain and revise a master classification plan for all positions in the classified service, based on…
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Existing law sets forth various requirements and procedures governing the employment of persons in the classified and unclassified service of this State. (Chapter 284 of NRS) Existing law requires the Administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management of the Department of Administration to prepare, maintain and revise a master classification plan for all positions in the classified service, based on similarity of duties and responsibilities, so that the same qualifications may reasonably be required for, and the same schedule of pay may be equitably applied to, all positions in the same class. (NRS 284.160) Section 4 of this bill requires the Administrator, in determining the qualifications that may be reasonably required for all positions in the same class, to allow a person to substitute equivalent employment experience obtained in the Federal Government for any employment experience required to be obtained in the government of this State. Existing law requires an appointing authority, with respect to positions in the classified service of the State, to recruit, evaluate, select, manage and promote employees through open competition on the basis of knowledge, skills and ability and without regard to certain characteristics of an applicant or employee. (NRS 284.210) Section 5 of this bill specifies that the requirement applies, without limitation, to the recruitment, evaluation, selection, management and promotion of an employee through the making of any determination that affects the pay of an employee. Sections 2 and 5 of this bill additionally require an appointing authority, with respect to positions in the classified and unclassified service, to recruit, evaluate, select, manage and promote employees, including, without limitation, through the making of any determination that affects the pay of an employee, in a manner which recognizes relevant employment experience obtained by an applicant or employee in the Federal Government as equivalent to employment experience obtained in the government of this State. Section 3 of this bill prohibits, with certain exceptions, an appointing authority from requiring an applicant for a position in the classified or unclassified service to have obtained a bachelor's degree as a condition precedent to employment. Section 3 provides an exception from that prohibition if the appointing authority makes certain determinations. Because section 3 prohibits an appointing authority from requiring an applicant to have obtained a bachelor's degree except under certain limited circumstances, section 4 eliminates provisions of existing law which require the Administrator to conduct certain periodic reviews of classes of positions in the classified service which require a person to hold a bachelor's degree. (NRS 284.160)
