Personnel

Personnel Code

This is the law that provides the basis for the civil service merit system in Illinois. It embraces all positions of employment in the service of the state unless specifically excluded by legislation. It empowers the Director of Central Management Services to promulgate Rules and carry out this law, and creates the Civil Service Commission to monitor its proper administration and to conduct hearings.

Personnel Rules

The Personnel Rules, together with the Classification Plan, Pay Plan and body of Classification Standards, make up the administrative rules and these have the force and effect of law, subject to the interpretation of the Director and review by the Civil Service Commission. Personnel Rules consists of classification and pay, merit and fitness, coditions of employment, general provisions, and extensions of jurisdiction.

Pay Plan

The Pay Plan provides administrative rules pertaining to compensation practices and policies applicable to state employees covered by the jurisdiction of the Personnel Code. The Pay Plan also provides the pay schedules and salary ranges for position classifications included in the Classification Plan.

Class Specifications

These are formal documents that describe in a useful way the types and levels of jobs within the entire Classification Plan. Specifications have the force and effect of law. They are representative and not restrictive in defining a class of positions. Classes are ordinarily defined as broadly applying to occupational groupings, which subsume a variety of different types of positions within the occupation for which the standard is written. Levels of work within an occupation are defined as a series of class specifications.

Alphabetic Index

This is an alphabetic listing of all position classification titles utilized in Agencies, Departments, Boards and Commissions under the jurisdiction of the Governor of the State of Illinois. It includes the position title code, equal employment occupational code, position title, salary plan, and the applicable rates of pay.

Labor Relations

Labor forms and contracts.

Other State Human Resource Links

Human resources and personnel sites in other states.

Personnel Workbench (Login Required)

A comprehensive human resources information system for Personnel Officers and Agency program managers. The site is password protected and available only to state agencies through the Enterprise web.