ORD-1999-019 Personnel ordinance Addition - Multi-Lingual Recruitment and Hiring

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1 Orange County Board of Commissioners Action Agenda Item Abstract Meeting Date: November 3, 1999 Action Agenda Item No. Subject: Personnel Ordinance Addition — Multi-Lingual Recruitment and Hiring Department: Personnel Public Hearing: Yes No X Budget Amendment Needed: Yes No X Attachment(s): Information Contact: Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director Draft Addition to the Orange County Extension 2550 Personnel Ordinance —Article II, Telephone Number: Recruitment and Selection Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 Purpose: To consider adding a multi-lingual recruitment and hiring policy to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance. Background: As part of the 1999-00 goal setting process,the Board of Commissioners adopted an "Hispanic-Latino Relations" goal. Among other things, this provides for the "development of an affirmative multi-lingual hiring policy for Orange County employment. " Attached is a draft multi-lingual recruitment and hiring policy. The draft policy would cover positions that provide direct, critical services to client groups that regularly include Spanish-speaking clients. Examples of such positions could include certain Social Workers, Public Health Nurses, Paramedics, and receptionists for critical services and the like. For such positions the County would incorporate a stated preference for candidates with bi-lingual language skills in English and Spanish in the job announcement and employment advertising for the opening. The outcome sought is to increase the number of Spanish speaking employees in the work force as part of the broader effort to provide information and materials in Spanish for the rapidly growing Latino population in Orange County. In terms of affirmative recruitment for candidates with such skills, the County in its job recruitment has and will pursue additional outreach to the Hispanic-Latino community. These efforts include: ❑ Participation in the La Fiesta Del Pueblo job fair to promote awareness of Orange County as an area employer and attendance at other events as identified.