The goal of the Human Resources Office is to meet the City of Janesville's human resources needs. Our objectives are to:

• Provide effective personnel services to all City departments
• Recruit quality employees
• Provide effective development and use of human resources

The Human Resources Office also provides five major services to all City departments:

Recruitment & Selection

• Managing the steps of a recruitment process from the time a position is authorized to fill through the job offer 
• Elements of a recruitment process include:
  • determining the needs for the position
  • posting and advertising a vacancy
  • reviewing and referring applications to hiring manager
  • interviewing, selecting a finalist, conducting reference checks, and
  • pre-employment testing

Labor and Employee Relations

• Labor contract administration with three Union groups
  • research salary and benefit information for contract negotiations
  • grievance and interest arbitration
  • impact bargaining
• Addressing employee issues
  • advising management staff on employee issues, and
  • employee discipline research and advice

HR Policies/Benefits/Salary Administration

• Administration of the City's personnel policies, compensation plans and benefit packages
• Payroll processing
• Job classification, development and maintenance of job descriptions
• Conducting and responding to wage and benefit survey
• Employee orientation, employee training, and employee job performance evaluations
• Retirement

Health and Wellness

• Administering the City's self-funded health and dental plans and insured vision plan, maintaining plan documents, providing for premium rate reviews
• Conducting an annual eligible employee enrollment
• Researching and responding to plan questions and concerns, and
• Providing the City stop loss coverage

Worker Compensation

• Administering the City's self-funded worker compensation program for work-related accidents and injuries.  Claims are processed and paid by a claims administrator.

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