AB21,1393,22 (2) If the administrator director refuses to examine an applicant, or after an examination to certify an eligible, as provided in this section, the administrator director, if requested by the applicant so rejected within 10 days of the date of receipt of the notice of rejection, shall give the applicant a full and explicit statement of the exact cause of such refusal to examine or to certify. Applicants may appeal to the commission the decision of the administrator director to refuse to examine or certify under s. 230.44 (1) (a). Upon request of an applicant or an eligible for a civil service position who has a disability, the department of health services shall obtain from the administrator director a detailed description of all duties entailed by such position and shall determine and report its findings to the administrator director, as to the ability of the applicant, or eligible, to perform the duties of such position. Such findings shall be conclusive as to the qualifications of any applicant, or eligible, so examined. A notice of rejection shall notify an applicant or eligible of his or her rights under this subsection.

AB21,1394,4 (3) When any position to be filled involves fiduciary responsibility, the appointing authority shall conduct a criminal history background check before offering employment to an applicant for the position. If otherwise permitted by law, the appointing authority may require the appointee to furnish bond or other security, and shall notify the administrator director of the amount and other details thereof. Any surety company authorized to do business in this state shall be a sufficient security on any such bond.

AB21,3723 Section 3723. 230.18 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1394,16 230.18 Discrimination prohibited. No question in any form of application or in any examination may be so framed as to elicit information concerning the partisan political or religious opinions or affiliations of any applicant nor may any inquiry be made concerning such opinions or affiliations and all disclosures thereof shall be discountenanced except that the administrator director may evaluate the competence and impartiality of applicants for positions such as clinical chaplain in a state institutional program. No discriminations may be exercised in the recruitment, application, examination or hiring process against or in favor of any person because of the person's political or religious opinions or affiliations or because of age, sex, disability, race, color, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry except as otherwise provided.

AB21,3724 Section 3724. 230.19 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1394,21 230.19 (1) The administrator director shall provide employees with reasonable opportunities for career advancement, within a classified service structure designed to achieve and maintain a highly competent work force, with due consideration given to affirmative action.

AB21,3725 Section 3725. 230.19 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1395,8 230.19 (2) If, in the judgment of the administrator director, the group of applicants best able to meet the requirements for vacancies in positions in the classified service are available within the classified service, the vacancies shall be filled by competition limited to persons in the classified service who are not employed under s. 230.26 or 230.27 and persons with the right of restoration resulting from layoff under s. 230.34 (2), unless it is necessary to go outside the classified service to be consistent with an approved affirmative action plan or program. The administrator director may also limit competition for promotion to the employees of an agency or an employing unit within an agency if the resulting group of applicants would fairly represent the proportion of members of racial and ethnic, gender or disabled groups in the relevant labor pool for the state.

AB21,3726 Section 3726. 230.21 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1395,12 230.21 (1) Subject to s. 230.275, the administrator director may, to meet the needs of the service, establish separate recruitment, examination and certification procedures for filling positions in unskilled labor and service classes.

AB21,3727 Section 3727. 230.21 (1m) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1395,17 230.21 (1m) (a) (intro.) If the administrator director uses the method of random certification to determine which applicants for an unskilled labor or service position will receive further consideration for the position, the administrator director shall do all of the following:

AB21,3728 Section 3728. 230.21 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1396,2 230.21 (1m) (b) If the administrator director uses the method of random certification to determine which applicants for an unskilled labor or service position will receive further consideration for the position and the appointing authority does not select a veteran or a person the hiring of whom would serve affirmative action purposes, the appointing authority shall make and retain a written record of the appointing authority's reasons for selecting the person who was appointed. The appointing authority shall make the written records available to the office division and annually submit a report to the office division summarizing the reasons contained in the written records.

AB21,3729 Section 3729. 230.21 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1396,8 230.21 (2) The administrator director may designate classifications in which applicants are in critically short supply and may develop such recruitment, examination and certification processes as will provide agencies with prompt certification when qualified applicants can be found, provided that due notice has been given and proper competitive standards have been maintained.

AB21,3730 Section 3730. 230.21 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1396,15 230.21 (3) The administrator director shall designate classifications in prison industries in the department of corrections as critical positions requiring expeditious hiring and shall develop such recruitment, examination and certification processes as will provide the department with prompt certification when qualified applicants can be found, provided that due notice has been given and proper competitive standards have been maintained.

AB21,3731 Section 3731. 230.213 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1397,2 230.213 Affirmative action procedures for corrections positions. The administrator director may, to meet affirmative action objectives, establish such recruitment, examination and certification procedures for positions in the department of corrections as will enable the department of corrections to increase the number of employees of a specified gender or a specified racial or ethnic group in those positions. The administrator director shall design the procedures to obtain a work force in the department of corrections that reflects the relevant labor pool. The administrator director may determine the relevant labor pool from the population of the state or of a particular geographic area of the state, whichever is more appropriate for achieving the affirmative action objective.

AB21,3732 Section 3732. 230.215 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1397,12 230.215 (3) (a) An agency may, with the approval of the director administrator and with the approval of the secretary of administration under s. 16.50, restructure budgeted permanent positions as such positions become vacant or if an employee voluntarily requests a job-sharing or permanent part-time employment opportunity. No employee occupying a full-time permanent position may be involuntarily terminated, demoted, transferred or reassigned in order to restructure that position for permanent part-time employment and no such employee may be required to accept a permanent part-time position as a condition of continued employment.

AB21,3733 Section 3733. 230.215 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1397,18 230.215 (3) (b) If the director administrator, upon review of the report submitted under sub. (4), determines that an agency's past or proposed actions relating to permanent part-time employment opportunities do not adequately reflect the policy under sub. (1) (e), the director administrator may recommend procedures designed to enable the agency to effect such policy.

AB21,3734 Section 3734. 230.215 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1397,23 230.215 (4) Reports. Each agency, in complying with s. 15.04 (1) (d), shall include a report on the progress or failure of the plans of such agency in achieving the policies stated under sub. (1) and shall submit a copy of such report to the director administrator.

AB21,3735 Section 3735. 230.22 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB21,1398,3 230.22 Entry professional selection. (1) The director administrator may establish by rule an entry professional class program for use in a wide range of entry professional positions.

AB21,1398,7 (2) In connection with this program the director administrator may establish separate classifications and corresponding pay provisions to provide agencies an entry professional program, through which they can compete on campuses and in the labor market for the best available applicants.