Illinois Compiled Statutes 15 Executive Officers: Article -
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 1
Title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Secretary of State Merit Employment Code, and shall apply to employment within...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 2
Purpose. The purpose of the Secretary of State Merit Employment Code is to establish for the Office of the Secretary of State a system...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 3
Definitions. For the purpose of this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows:...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 4
Organization. There is created in the Office of the Secretary of State: (a) a Department of Personnel, headed by a Director, which shall be...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 5
Jurisdictions; exemptions. All offices and positions of employment in the Office of the Secretary of State shall be subject to this Act unless specifically...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 5a
Definition of jurisdictions. There are created 3 separate areas of jurisdiction of the Department, as follows: (1) Jurisdiction A, with respect to the classification...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 5b
General exemptions. The following positions in the Office of the Secretary of State shall be exempt from jurisdictions A, B and C, unless such...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 5c
Partial exemptions. The following positions in the Office of the Secretary of State are exempt from jurisdictions A, B and C to the extent stated...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 5d
Extension of jurisdiction B to unskilled positions. The Director of Personnel may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, extend jurisdiction B to...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 6
Director - appointment - qualifications. The Department of Personnel shall have an officer at its head who shall be known as Director of Personnel....
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 6a
Director - powers and duties. The Director shall have the following duties and responsibilities: (1) To apply and carry out this law and the...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 6b
Certification of payrolls. On or after the effective date of this Act, no State disbursing or auditing officer shall make or approve or take...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 7
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 80-13. Repealed by 90-372, eff. 7-1-98, and 90-422, eff. 8-15-97.)
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 7a
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 80-13. Repealed by 90-372, eff. 7-1-98, and 90-422, eff. 8-15-97.)
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 7b
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 80-13. Repealed by 90-372, eff. 7-1-98, and 90-422, eff. 8-15-97.)
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 7c
Powers. In addition to the duties imposed elsewhere in this Act, the Merit Commission may: (1) advise the Secretary of State and the Director...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 8
Merit Commission. There shall be a Merit Commission for the Office of the Secretary of State, composed of 5 members appointed by the Secretary...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 8a
Terms, compensation. Members of the Merit Commission shall be initially appointed as follows: (1) One member to serve for 2 years and until his successor...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 8b
Meetings. The Merit Commission shall meet periodically in accordance with a schedule established by the chairman and at such other times as necessary, upon...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 8c
Duties and powers of the Commission. The Merit Commission, in addition to any other duties prescribed in this Act, shall have the following duties and...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 9
Hearings - disciplinary action. No certified officer or employee under jurisdiction B, relating to merit and fitness, who has been appointed under the rules and...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 9a
Hearings - transaction used as subterfuge for discharge. A certified employee who believes that he or she has been separated from employment in the...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 9b
Administrative review. All final administrative decisions of the Merit Commission shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 9c
Every employee reinstated for the period for which he was improperly suspended, discharged or laid off shall receive full compensation for such period notwithstanding...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10
Rules. The Director of Personnel shall prepare and submit to the Merit Commission proposed rules for all positions and employees subject to this Act....
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10a
Jurisdiction A - classification and pay. For positions in the Office of the Secretary of State with respect to the classification and pay: (1)...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b
Jurisdiction B - merit and fitness. For positions in the Office of the Secretary of State with respect to selection and tenure on a...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.1
Competitive examinations. (a) For open competitive examinations to test the relative fitness of applicants for the respective positions. Tests shall be designed to eliminate those...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.2
Promotions. For promotions which shall give consideration to the applicant's qualifications and performance record, seniority and conduct. An advancement in rank or grade to...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.3
Eligible lists. For the establishment of eligible lists for appointment to positions in the Office of the Secretary of State upon which lists shall...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.4
Rejection of candidates or eligibles. For the rejection of candidates or eligibles who fail to comply with reasonable, previously specified job requirements of the...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.5
Appointments. For the appointment of a person standing among the 10 highest on the appropriate eligible list to fill a vacancy, or from the...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.6
Period of probation. For a period of probation not to exceed six months before appointment or promotion is complete, and during which period a...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.7
For the granting of appropriate preference in entrance examinations to qualified persons who have been members of the armed forces of the United States...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.8
Emergency appointments. For emergency appointments to any position in the Office of the Secretary of State for a period not to exceed 90 calendar...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.9
Temporary appointments. For temporary appointments for a period not to exceed 6 months out of any 12 month period to any position in the...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.10
Provisional appointments. For provisional appointments for a period not to exceed 6 months out of any 12 month period to a position without competitive...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.11
Transfers. For transfer from a position to a similar position involving similar qualifications, duties, responsibilities and salary ranges. If a transfer is from one...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.12
Reinstatements. For reinstatements with the approval of the Director of Personnel of persons who held certified status under this Code, the "Personnel Code" or...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.13
Layoffs. For layoffs by reason of lack of funds or work, abolition of a position or material change in duties or organization and for...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.14
Performance records. To foster staff development and utilization by means of records of performance of all employees in the Office of the Secretary of...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.15
Disciplinary actions. For the imposition as a disciplinary measure of suspension from the Office of the Secretary of State without pay for not longer...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.16
Discharge or demotion - hearings - statement of reasons. For hearing before discharge or demotion with the prior approval of the Director of Personnel...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.17
Trainee programs. For trainee programs and for the appointment of persons to positions in trainee programs, hereinafter called "trainee appointments". Trainee appointments may be...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10b.18
Veterans hospital visits. An employee who is also a veteran shall be permitted 4 days per year to visit a veterans hospital for examination of...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10c
Jurisdiction C - conditions of employment. For positions in the Office of the Secretary of State with respect to conditions of employment: (1) For...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10d
Extension to exempt positions. For the extension of all or any of the jurisdictions of the Department of Personnel to positions exempted by this...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 10e
For such other rules and administrative regulations, not inconsistent with this law, as may be proper and necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 11
Transfers from other merit systems. Any employee subject to the jurisdiction of the "Personnel Code" as established under the Governor of the State of...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 12
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), employees of the Office of the Secretary of State - election to public office - leave of absence...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 13
Unlawful acts prohibited. (1) No person shall make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating or report with regard to any test, certification, or appointment...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 14
Records of the Department of Personnel. The records of the Department, including eligible registers, except such records as the rules may properly require to...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 15
Oaths, testimony, and the production of records. The Commission, each member of the Commission and the Director shall have power to administer oaths, subpoena...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 16
Status of present employees. Employees holding positions in the Office of the Secretary of State herein shall continue under the following conditions: (1) Employees...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 17
Ethics disclosure. No employee of the Office of the Secretary of State may violate any constitutional or statutory requirement to make ethics disclosure, and...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 17.5
State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. (a) Disciplinary action under the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act against a person subject to this Act is...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 18
Affirmative Action. The Secretary of State shall appoint an Equal Employment Opportunity Officer who shall serve until his or her successor is appointed and...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 18a
Equal Employment Opportunity Plan. The Equal Employment Opportunity Officer shall, within 90 days after the effective date of this Act and annually thereafter, submit...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 18b
Duties of Secretary of State's Equal Employment Opportunity Officer. The Secretary of State's Equal Employment Opportunity Officer shall: (1) set forth a detailed and...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 18c
Supported employees. (a) The Director shall develop and implement a supported employment program. It shall be the goal of the program to appoint a minimum...
- Illinois Secretary of State Merit Employment Code. - 15 ILCS 310, Section 19
Penalties. Except as otherwise provided, any person who willfully violates any provision of this Act or of the rules shall be guilty of a...
Last modified: February 18, 2015