South Dakota Codified Laws 3-6D-6. Merit standards for personnel management actions
Any personnel management actions taken under the provisions of this chapter shall comply with merit standards as follows:
(1) Recruiting, selecting, and advancing civil service employees through open consideration of qualified applicants for initial appointments and promotions. Selection of qualified applicants is based on relative ability, knowledge, and skills;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 3-6D-6
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
(2) Providing equitable and adequate compensation;
(3) Training civil service employees to assure high quality performance;
(4) Retaining civil service employees based on performance, correcting inadequate performance, and separating employees whose performance cannot be improved; and
(5) Assuring fair treatment without regard to age, political affiliation, race, color, national origin, sex, or religious creed.
Source: SL 2012, ch 23, § 43; SL 2019, ch 21, § 28.