BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- All positions in Jefferson County's Human Resources Department, including director, were eliminated today in a restructuring by a court-appointed receiver, AL.com has learned.

Receiver Dr. Ronald Sims, in a memo, said that all new positions would be created in the department -- but not one for current HR director Demetruis Taylor.

Instead, Sims will assume direct supervision of the department no later than April 10, according to some with knowledge of the memo.

Taylor came to the county in 2003 and helped establish Jefferson County's first HR Department, becoming director in 2005.

There are between 15-18 positions in the department, including some currently vacant.

Sims will eliminate all of the HR jobs and create new ones under an organizational chart that he has designed. Some of the new positions already have names of likely employees who will fill the slots.

The re-classifications come five months after Sims was

over the hiring, firing and promotions in Jefferson County; and three weeks after he delivered his

to U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith Jr., who is handling the county's consent decree case.