Human Resources Department
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Senate resolution sponsored by Sen. Utu Sila Poasa calls on the governor to reinstate the ASG Personnel Advisory Board and the Wage and Hour Board to assist the Human Resources Department over issues raised through the governor’s Corrective Personnel Action directive...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a Dec. 11th Executive Order, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga established procedure for administrative appeals before the Office of the Administrative Law Judge for decisions issued by the ASG Human Resources Department relating to two federal unemployment programs for...

![Sen. Utu Sila Poasa explained that the new measure is to assist DHR, which is currently conducting a review of personnel records, based on the governor’s Feb. 5th, which orders the roll-back of pay adjustments made without justification in the budget as well as converting contract workers to career service employees without going through the merit process — since Jan. 1, 2019 to the present. [photo: talanei website] Sen. Utu Sila Poasa](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sen_utu_sila_poasa.jpeg?itok=HbgHmawh)
![“For the avoidance of doubt,” the governor ordered that the Office of the ALJ shall have jurisdiction to conduct hearings and issue decisions on appeals of reconsideration of PUA and FPUC benefit determinations issued by DHR. [SN file photo] Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lolo_speech_65.jpg?itok=mOY1ekEU)