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The Department of Personnel Administration or DPA, is a cabinet-level department within the government of California, responsible for administering the State's Human resource management system, in partnership with the California State Personnel Board. DPA is responsible for all issues related to labor relations, job classifications, salaries, benefits, and the State's deferred compensation program. For most of the approximately 220,000 State employees, these matters are determined through the collective bargaining process.

History
DPA was created in 1981 through Governor Jerry Brown's reorganization act which administered those aspects of the State personnel system that had become subject to collective bargaining under the Ralph C. Dills Act. In 1984, Governor George Deukmejian transferred responsibility for allocating State positions to the appropriate civil service classification from the State Personnel Board to DPA. (Prior to DPA's creation, SPB was the sole personnel agency in the executive branch.)