Section 25-2-6

Director of Industrial Relations - Qualifications, appointment, oath of office, term of office, bond and compensation; filling of vacancies.

The Department of Industrial Relations shall be headed by and shall be under the direction, supervision and control of an officer who shall be known and designated as the Director of Industrial Relations. The Director of Industrial Relations shall be the advisor of the Governor and the Legislature in matters relating to employer-employee relations and the welfare of the wage earners of the state. He shall be responsible to the Governor for the administration of the Department of Industrial Relations. The Director of Industrial Relations shall be appointed by and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. Vacancies for any reason shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments are made. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, the Director of Industrial Relations shall take the constitutional oath of office. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the Director of Industrial Relations shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the Governor, in an amount to be fixed by the Governor, but not less than $10,000.00, for the faithful performance of his duties. The annual salary of the Director of Industrial Relations shall be fixed by the Governor at a sum comparable to salaries paid similar officers in other states, notwithstanding any limitation or maximum in any other law, $1,200.00 of which sum shall be paid from moneys of the State of Alabama and the remainder from grants of the United States of America to this state. Such salary shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of other state officers. The Director of Industrial Relations is authorized and empowered to make such agreements as may be necessary or proper with the United States of America with respect to the proration of funds from the State of Alabama and funds from the federal government for the salary paid to the Director of Industrial Relations by virtue of the provisions of this section. The Director of Industrial Relations shall devote his full time to his official duties and shall not hold another office under the government of the United States, or under any other state, or of this state or any political subdivision thereof, during his incumbency in such office, and shall not hold any position of trust or profit, or engage in any occupation or business the conduct of which shall interfere or be inconsistent with his duties as Director of Industrial Relations under the provisions of this title.

(Acts 1939, No. 161, p. 232; Code 1940, T. 26, §2; Acts 1943, No. 122, p. 123; Acts 1947, No. 527, p. 385; Acts 1951, Ex. Sess., No. 11, p. 177; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 2190.)