PERSONNEL AND COMPENSATION. Subject to other provisions of this act, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission is authorized to appoint, fix the compensation and prescribe the duties and powers of such officers, accountants, attorneys, experts, and other persons as may be necessary in the performance of its duties under this act. The Commission may delegate to any such persons such power and authority as it deems reasonable and proper for the effective administration of this act, and may in its discretion bond any person handling moneys or signing checks hereunder. The Commission is authorized and directed to maintain the existing merit system covering all persons employed in the administration of this act and shall have authority, by rule, to provide for all matters which are appropriate to the establishment and maintenance of such system on the basis of efficiency and fitness. The Commission is authorized to adopt such rules as may be necessary to meet personnel standards promulgated by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services pursuant to the Social Security Act, as amended, and the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system, and for other purposes", approved June 6, 1933, as amended, and to provide for the maintenance of the merit system required under this section in conjunction with any merit system applicable to any other state agency or agencies which meets the personnel standards promulgated by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

Added by Laws 1980, c. 323, § 4-312, emerg. eff. June 13, 1980. Amended by Laws 1990, c. 333, § 16, emerg. eff. May 31, 1990; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 130.