Merit System Principles

Lynwood Unified School District is committed to the goal of fair and equitable employment practices in the effort to hire the most qualified educational support staff assisting in the education of the Lynwood Unified School District students. It is one of approximately one-hundred (100) school districts in California to utilize the Merit System to ensure that this goal continues to be met in the administration of the Classified Personnel. The Merit System encompasses these basic principles and concepts:

• Hiring and promoting employees based on ability, with open competition in initial employment.
• Providing for equitable compensation.
• Retaining employees based on performance.
• Correcting inadequate performance and separating those whose inadequate performance cannot be corrected.
• Training employees as needed for high quality performance.
• Assuring fair treatment of all applicants and employees in all aspects of personnel administration without regard to political affiliation, race, color, national origin, gender or religious creed, and with proper regard for their privacy and constitutional rights as citizens.
• Protecting employees against political coercion.