personnel department

noun

the department in an organization dealing with matters involving employees, as hiring, training, labor relations, and benefits.

First recorded in 1940–45

The Personnel Department was "constantly" receiving requests from commanders that no black noncoms be assigned to their units.

Did you look at it as you were there in the personnel department?

There is no confusing maze of hallways leading to the Personnel Department from the outside.

But you know in the personnel department after you had delivered Oswald to the homicide squadron, you saw the gun and six bullets?

I called up and asked for the personnel department, asked if a Lee Oswald was employed there.

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