Hiring & Employment Monitoring Division

​The State Officials and Employees Ethics Act directs the OEIG to "review hiring and employment files of each State agency within [its] jurisdiction to ensure compliance with Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois... and with all applicable employment laws." 5 ILCS 430/20-20(9). In keeping with this mandate, in FY2016, the OEIG created the Division of Hiring & Employment Monitoring (HEM), which conducts compliance-based reviews of State hiring and employment procedures and decisions to ensure that they are lawful, merit-based and/or justifiable. HEM conducts file reviews and on-site monitoring of agency hiring decisions. HEM operates independently from the OEIG Investigative Division.