Section 27.06. Exceptional employment list establishment.

  The director may authorize establishment of exceptional employment eligibility lists to enable agencies to hire individuals for exceptional employment situation vacancies. In establishing the lists the director shall employ merit system principles which are comparable to those which are used in establishing standard eligibility lists for the same classification and may use one or more of the following methods or processes:

(1)  Limitation of recruitment to a specific applicant target group;

(2)  Grouping of applicants based on their qualifications and certification of qualified applicants from these groups;

(3)  Creation of an exceptional employment list from a standard employment list;

(4)  Examination waivers; and

(5)  Seeking the creation of emergency classifications and suitable salary ranges for the classifications, which may be entirely new classes or the counterpart of existing classes except for qualification requirements. Emergency classifications created and positions filled under this subsection shall be abolished 6 months after the condition of disaster or emergency ceases to exist. The examination methods to be used in these emergency situations may include traditional testing instruments or one or more of the following: evaluations of training, experience or general qualifications. The testing method may be either competitive or noncompetitive in whole or in part.

History: Cr. Register, May, 1988, No. 389 , eff. 6-1-88; correction in (intro.), made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6. , Stats., Register September 2015 No. 717 .