REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Amend the Salary Resolution to Update Various Benefits and the Schedule of Pay to Provide Salary Increases for Pay Plan Category G (Unrepresented Classified Confidential Employees)
Report
BACKGROUND
Unrepresented Classified Confidential (pay plan category G) employees are not organized and do not negotiate for any changes to their wages, hours, and/or other terms and conditions of employment. A side letter was signed in 1996 between the City and the Sunnyvale Employees' Association (SEA) designating Confidential classifications. "Confidential employees" are those who in the customary course of their duties, regularly assist or act in a confidential capacity to persons who formulate, determine and effectuate management policies in employer-employee relations and/or who regularly (if only for brief periods of time) have access to confidential information concerning meeting and conferring and/or employer-employee relations matters between the City and employee organizations.
Pursuant to the existing provisions of Salary Resolution Section 1.000, pay plan category G employees currently receive the same treatment as pay plan category B (SEA) employees for purposes of wage adjustments, benefits and leaves, except for Paid Time Off (PTO) and floating holiday as defined in Sections 3.110 and 3.310. Category G and category B employees also have different levels of benefits for paid medical leave and workers compensation since the adoption of the 2012-2015 SEA MOU.
Wage increases and some benefits changes for unrepresented management employees (pay plan categories D and K) and department directors were approved by the City Council on July 26, 2016 and August 23, 2016 respectively, to achieve the goal of maintaining consistent benefits between represented and unrepresented employees.
This report presents the opportunity to provide wage adjustments and amend some provisions of the Salary Resolution for pay plan category G employees to...
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