[Tidybuoy]

Once again, I am researching some rules related to Human Resources because my HR Manager is an idiot and constantly quotes things that are not true.

Situation:
I have a guy that works for me, he is about 68 yrs old and has just retired as of 01/31/2021. He is the purchasing manager for the company and he has a part time assistant.

I promoted the assistant to take over all of his duties. However, he previously split his time with another department (Customer Service). He is severely under utilized by CS and frequently tells me he has nothing to do over there. He likes the purchasing side of his job.

I promoted him without going thru HR as we just increased his responsibilities and I got him a bump in his pay. I do not report to HR, I am the CFO and I get to do things....

Our HR Mgr. has been working from home since Covid started and is rarely available other than a phone call - she's in the office a couple of days a week. When she was here this week, I let her know of the changes we have made.

HR Manager is telling me that I have to post the job - it's California Law. However, I could site at least 20 times when people have ben moved within the plant and nothing was ever posted. My position on this is that it should be applied consistently. In this case, I simply added responsibility to someone who was already doing part of the job. Quite frankly, I'm gonna do what I want - even if I have to post the position as this guy is the one I want to do the work.

Any thoughts?