{"id":304250,"date":"2019-07-22T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=304250"},"modified":"2019-07-22T06:06:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:06:51","slug":"senate-confirms-abraham-maratita-to-csc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senate-confirms-abraham-maratita-to-csc\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Abraham, Maratita to CSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304253\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Confirmation-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Confirmation-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senate confirmed Jake Maratita, sixth right, and Felicitas Abraham, seventh right, into the CNMI Civil Service Commission during the continuation of their session yesterday. (Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Senate confirmed two additional nominations to the NMI\u2019s Civil Service Commission during the continuation of their session Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate confirmed both Felicitas P. Abraham and Jake U. Maratita to the seven-man CSC, on a vote of 8-0.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham told Saipan Tribune that some of the things she would like to push at the CSC include improved grievance concerns of employees as well as reviewing some laws that automatically convert study years into experience after a certain educational degree is attained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Some jobs may not require two years; some jobs require exposure,\u201d she said. \u201c\u2026We have been working on our class specifications, we are revamping it actually,\u201d she said, referring to some of the concerns the senators brought up during her public hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham would be taking back some notes from the public hearing to review when the CSC reorganizes, including topics such as the sick leave bank.<\/p>\n<p>Grievance concerns are also on the list \u201cbefore it comes to the CSC, when the employee and his attorney or employer cannot agree to a solution or when the director of personal [maintains a position] and the employee is not happy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Some instances include grievance concerns for when an employee applies for a promotion and is not selected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might have to change that,\u201d she said. \u201cThose are some of the things the Senate wants us to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed two additional nominations to the NMI\u2019s Civil Service Commission during the continuation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":304253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[747],"class_list":["post-304250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-csc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}