Okla. Admin. Code § 1:2011-11A
Current through Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1, 2024
I, Mary Fallin, Governor of the State of Oklahoma, pursuant to the power and authority vested in me by the provisions of Subsection D of Section 840-2.14 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, hereby order a state agency hiring freeze.
For purposes of this hiring freeze, each statewide elected official shall perform the duties of a Cabinet Secretary in approving or disapproving exemptions to this hiring freeze. These duties shall be accomplished in the same manner as other official actions by the elected officials.
This hiring freeze shall be implemented by all agencies in accordance with the following guidelines:
1. It is my direction that no audits of classified positions or reallocation of unclassified positions shall be initiated or conducted at the request of any agency unless specifically approved by the appropriated Cabinet Secretary.2. All audits resulting from a classification grievance shall be exempted from the provisions of this Executive Order.3. Except as specifically provided and authorized by this order, all affected state agencies are prohibited from hiring, reinstating, or promoting employees and from accepting a transferred employee from another agency.4. Exceptions to this hiring freeze may be granted pursuant to special conditions as declared by the Chief Administrative Officer of any agency and approved by the appropriate Cabinet Secretary for that agency. However, information technology positions, regardless of the Cabinet area of which the individual is employed, shall be approved or disapproved by the Secretary of Information Technology and Telecommunications. The information technology positions subject to this exception includes, but are not limited to, both classified and unclassified positions in the following functional areas: Applications Programming, EDP Audit, Data Examination, Computer Applications, Computer Data Entry, Computer Networking, Computer Operations, Computer Programming, Computer Security, Computer Software Design, Web Applications, Data Base Analysis, Data Management Analysis, Data Base Development, Data Base Programming, Software Design/Development, Help Desk, Imaging, Systems Analysis, Systems Application Planning, Systems Application, Systems Administration, Systems Coordination, Systems Integration, Systems Operation, Systems Planning/Development, Systems Programming, Systems Engineering, Systems Services Specialist, Systems Support, Network Administration, Network Management, Network Technical, Operating Systems Specialist, Systems, Program Manager, Telecommunications (Data and Voice), Software Training, and Technology Development/Support. a. A Chief Administrative Officer shall submit a written request to the appropriate Cabinet Secretary stating the special conditions requiring the submission of the request.b. Such requests may be on forms provided by the Office of Personnel Management. If an agency has an internal form regularly used by that agency which provides all the necessary information, that form may be used in lieu of the Office of Personnel Management forms if approved by the Director of the Office of State Finance.c. The Cabinet Secretary shall indicate approval in writing of the submitted request for the granting of an exception of this hiring freeze.d. All approved requests and approved Cabinet Secretary findings shall be maintained as an official record by the Office of Personnel Management in accordance with Records Management Act. Any agency which does not submit personnel action requests for approval to the Office of Personnel Management shall be responsible for maintaining this documentation.e. In the event of a vacancy in a Cabinet Secretary position, the Secretary of State shall act as the approving authority for the hiring freeze exception request.f. Effective November 1, 2011, all requests for hiring freeze exceptions for agencies reporting to the Secretary of Human Resources and Administration shall be directed to the Secretary of Finance and Revenue who shall have the authority to review and approve those requests.5. The Director of the Office of State Finance is hereby directed to develop and implement procedures necessary to carry out the provisions of this Executive Order.6. The Director of the Office of State Finance is authorized to require Cabinet Secretaries to provide him with periodic accountings of their approvals and disapprovals of written request for exemptions to this hiring freeze. These reports shall be provided to the Governor.7. The Oklahoma Military Department shall not be required to comply with this order for hiring personnel and contracts for which the department receives total federal government reimbursement. Copies of this Executive Order shall be distributed to the Secretary for Finance and Revenue for immediate implementation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma to be affixed at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, this 26th day of October, 2011.
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
Mary Fallin
ATTEST:
Michelle R. Day
Assistant Secretary of State
Okla. Admin. Code § 1:2011-11A
Added as amendment to EO 11-11 at 29 Ok Reg 69, eff 10-26-11