PERSONNEL BRANCH 



GENERAL 



With the reorganlisatlon of the Branch last year Into six subsections, 

 more emphasis this year was given to specialized personnel management and 

 administrative programs Including those of classification, establishment, 

 including the continuation of the program of the appointment of long term 

 casuals to the temporary and permanent staff, recruitment, job advertising, 

 both internal and external, the administration of both overtime and grievance 

 regulations, performance appraisals, the safety and first-aid training pro- 

 gram and special training projects* 



Following the appointment by the Ontario Government of the firm of 

 Stevenson & Kellogg, Limited, management consultants, to study and niake 

 recommendations on a reclassification and salary program in the Civil 

 Service, based on job evaluation, a number of personnel from various branches 

 and districts were selected and loaned to this firm on a six to nine months 

 basis* The job evaluation project is continuing at all job levels in the 

 Department's organization* 



DETAILS 

 Classification 



Studies were continued on the forester, biologist, forest ranger and 

 conservation officer class series* Involved in this work were the collection 

 and sorting of position descriptions, the design of new class series for each 

 classification, writing class specifications and recommending salary schedules* 



The reclassification of the staff of the Research Branch continued* Be- 

 cause of the difficulties involved in assessing research personnel, outside 

 experts were consulted. Following the initial preliminary work of collection 

 and sorting of job description data, four meetings with consultant groups 

 were held and 42 cases were considered* Following further discussions with 

 the Civil Service Ccxmnission, 21 members of the Research Branch staff were 

 reclassified to the new Research Scientist class series* 



The studies on the proposed new class series. Fish Culturist, for hatch- 

 ery personnel was continued and recommendations respecting the class along 



with salax*y schedules have been submitted to the Commission* 



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