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2006 South Dakota Code - 3-7-20 — Personnel management actions--Compliance with merit standards.
3-7-20. Personnel management actions--Compliance with merit standards. All personnel management actions taken under the provisions of this chapter shall be made in compliance with merit standards as follows:
(1) Recruiting, selecting, and advancing
employees on the basis of, including but not limited to, relative
ability, knowledge, and skills and open consideration of qualified
applicants for initial appointments and promotions;
(2) Providing equitable and adequate
compensations;
(3) Training employees to assure high
quality performance;
(4) Retaining employees when necessary,
correcting inadequate performance, and separating employees whose
performance cannot be improved;
(5) Assuring fair treatment without regard
to age, political affiliation, race, color, national origin, sex,
or religious creed;
(6) Protecting employees against forced
involvement in partisan political activities.
Source: SL 1980, ch 29, § 16.
Source: SL 1980, ch 29, § 16.
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