State Employees
Current News for Employees
State Personnel Board Election Notice for Classified Employees
Human Resource Management Services is seeking candidates to serve a six-year term on the State Personnel Board. The Board meets at least once a year with the primary responsibility of fostering and assuring a system of personnel administration in the classified service of state government. The Board promulgates rules, reviews classification and pay grade appeals, reviews the state compensation plan, and approves positions not to be included in the classified service.
For details on candidate eligibility and how to get your name on the ballot, please refer to the Election Notice.
State Employee Compensation Commission (SECC)
Over 15,000 ballots for the SECC election have been distributed, so everyone - excluding temporary employees, elected officials, and Governor appointees - should be getting a blue ballot very soon.
One employee from the classified service will be elected from the following 3 candidates:
- Gary Feist, Office of the Tax Commissioner
- Josh Gallion, Department of Transportation
- Nickela Runck, Veterans Home
One candidate from the nonclassified service will be elected: Wesley Matthews, Minot State University.
We urge everyone to use their voting privilege in selection of the best candidate to help make recommendations to the Governor on appropriate levels of State employee compensation and fringe benefits! Ballots are due in the Secretary of State’s office by December 2.
Spotlight on Training - Stress
Let’s put the spotlight on stress this month. We explore the issues of stress management in our popular “Taming the Dragons” course. We say “Dragons” because we also address the issue of time management, and we believe that time management and stress management are very closely related. If one of these is “out of whack”, there’s a fair chance the other one is too.
In the stress section, we take a look at what stress is, what its symptoms are, identify personality factors that can influence our tendencies toward stress, and help you develop a stress management plan. We then take a look at the issues of time, learn what the symptoms of ineffective time management are, and learn “Golden Rules” of time management.
We all experience stress; and perhaps this course might give you some ideas on how you can better manage that “Dragon”, as well as the Dragon of Time Management!
