The City of Topeka’s Human Resources is responsible for maintaining the current classification and compensation program, benefits administration, training, recruitment and selection, labor relations, and a wellness program. Additionally, the department oversees the negotiation and grievance administration of the bargaining units as well as administers the pre-employment physicals and random drug and alcohol testing programs.
Strategic Goals Include:
- Incorporate communication, consumer service, and credibility into all the city departments.
- Recommend the legal framework that supports the changing department needs.
- Design flexible systems to provide more responsibility and accountability for the executive, managers, supervisor and employees.
- Evolve the human resources profession into a strategic role as opposed to process management in order to enable departments to become self-reliant and accountable, and allow HR to serve as consultants and policy directors.
- Develop all the elements of the human resource system of the future to make City of Topeka an employer of choice.
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City Code requires that all new employees reside within Shawnee County. At the time of employment they need not be residents of the county, but shall establish residency in Shawnee County within six (6) months after the successful completion of the initial probationary period.
“The City of Topeka is an Equal Opportunity Employer.”
