Code of Alabama
Article 12 - Employees.
Section 45-3-120.02 - Establishment and Guidelines.

There is established a personnel system for Barbour County based on the following principles:
(1) Recruiting, selecting, and advancing employees based on their ability, knowledge, and skills, including the open competition of qualified applicants for initial and subsequent appointment.
(2) Providing fair and equitable pay based on a compensation schedule consistent with the principle of pay equity.
(3) Providing training for employees, as needed, to assure quality job performance.
(4) Retaining employees on the basis of county needs, adequacy of their performance, and meeting reasonable standards of conduct.
(5) Disciplining employees, to include discharge, when such action is in the best interests of the county.
(6) Providing classified employees and other employees, as defined by the county commission, a grievance procedure for appealing final personnel actions, to include disciplinary and administrative actions.
(7) Assuring fair treatment of applicants and employees in all aspects of personnel administration without regard to political affiliation, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, or age.

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