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Adopt a resolution amending the Personnel and Salary Resolution to incorporate language regarding employee benefits and leaves to provide conformity with changes that were approved for most Represented employees; Codify changes for Unrepresented employees that were previously approved by the Board of Supervisors; and Incorporate clean-up language to existing overtime codes
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution to amend the Personnel and Salary Resolution (PSR) to:
1) Incorporate language regarding employee benefits and leaves to provide conformity with changes that were approved or imposed for most Represented employees;
2) Codify changes for Unrepresented employees that were previously approved by the Board of Supervisors; and
3) Incorporate clean-up language to existing overtime codes.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
In an effort to contain future employee benefits costs, the County negotiated contracts or imposed terms and conditions of employment containing a variety of concessions with most of the unions representing County employees. These concessions include lower retirement tiers, reductions to the CalPERS Employer Paid Member Contribution (EPMC); elimination of floating holidays; reducing the County’s contribution toward medical insurance from 80% to 75% of the CalPERS Kaiser Bay Area Region family rate; and modification of merit increase eligibility dates to increments of 26 pay periods for new hires, thereby extending the period of time it takes to get to the top salary step from 3.5 years to 4.0 years. Some of these concessions have also been adopted for Unrepresented employees; however, the PSR was not amended to include those changes.
To provide conformity with changes that were previously approved or imposed for most Represented employees, staff is recommending the Board of Supervisor...
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