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Adopt a resolution amending the County's Personnel and Salary Resolution Section 5.5, Salary Upon Promotion
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board adopt a resolution amending the Personnel and Salary Resolution Section 5.5, Salary Upon Promotion.
SUMMARY:
The County's Personnel and Salary Resolution applies to employees in Unit 30 (Confidential), Unit 61 (unrepresented Executive Management), Unit 62 (unrepresented Senior Management) and Unit 00 (unrepresented extra help). Section 5.5, Salary Upon Promotion, dictates that an employee who promotes is to receive the lowest available salary which provides him/her with a five percent pay increase. However, an external applicant for employment may be hired at any of the available salary steps and, based on that individual's education and experiences, may be offered a higher salary than the employee who promotes. The proposed Personnel and Salary Resolution amendment will permit an employee covered by the Personnel and Salary Resolution to be considered, when justified, a salary step which is greater than the minimum five percent pay increase.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The cost associated with preparing the agenda item is nominal and absorbed by the department's FY2019/20 Adopted Budget. It is assumed that an employee covered by the Personnel and Salary Resolution who promotes will not be earning a higher wage than the employee who last held that position and, therefore, it is anticipated that there is no net increased cost in the adoption of the proposed Personnel and Salary Resolution amendment.
DISCUSSION:
AB168 (Eggman, 2017) became law effective January 1, 2018, and prohibits employers from initiating inquiries about an individual applicant's salary history. The law indicates that an employer may not rely on an external applicant's prior salary history as a factor in determi...
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