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Upon adoption of the Compensation Plan for employees in the Department of Water and Power by the City Council, each employee, unless otherwise provided for in a Memorandum of Understanding, shall retain the step in the range which was held prior to the action of the City Council except that a step advancement which would have been applicable in accordance with Department of Water and Power Working Rule 3.7 shall be made prior to any change in the salary rates or range if the actions are concurrent.
Should the number of steps in the salary range prescribed for a position level in a class of positions be changed by action of the City Council, each employee’s step placement on the revised salary range shall be determined by placing such employee the same number of steps below the top step as the employee occupied on the former salary range except that no employee shall be placed below the bottom step of the revised range. In all such cases the salary anniversary date for step advancement for each such employee shall remain the same.
Should the City Council adopt a revised salary range for a position level in a class of positions, and if the application of the provisions of this section would result in a decrease in salary for an employee, such employee shall retain the former rate of pay until the employee’s next following anniversary date for step advancement at which time the employee shall advance to the next higher step in the adopted salary range.
For the purpose of administering these provisions, each employee shall have as a present “anniversary date” the date of the beginning of the payroll period in which the employee received the last step increase or the first day of the payroll period established by Department of Water and Power Working Rule 3.7 for salary step advancement if such employee was promoted, displaced or demoted within six months prior to the implementation of these provisions.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-4-77.
(a) Initial appointment to any position shall be at the lowest step in the salary range for the position.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) above, the General Manager may authorize the appointment of a person to a step above the lowest step in the salary range where the General Manager finds that:
(1) The Department or System is unable to recruit sufficient persons who have the needed experience, abilities or training for the position, or who are willing to work nonstandard hours or who are willing to work in certain locations, or
(2) The person to be appointed has experience and skills that exceed those of other candidates available for the position and such experience and skills are required, and
(3) The advanced step hiring is applied to a limited number of difficult-to-fill positions in the Department.
(c) Persons who are employees of other jurisdictions or entities whose functions are consolidated into the City and who enter City service by action of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners pursuant to the provisions of Charter Section 1021 shall be credited with their length of service in the position held at the time of the consolidation for salary step placement and salary step advancement purposes.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-4-77.
Amended by: Ord. No. 152,231, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; 3rd and 5th paragraphs, Ord. No. 152,544, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; Title and Section, Ord. No. 155,181, Eff. 5-4-81; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 172,760, Eff. 8-18-99, Oper. 8-18-99; Ord. No. 173,308, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
(a) Whenever an employee is assigned or appointed from a position to another position, the following step placement procedures shall apply:
(1) If the top step rate of the salary range for the new position is higher than the top step rate of the salary range for the former position, the employee shall be placed on the lowest step within the salary range for the new position which provides at least a five (5) percent increase over the rate received in the former position including any regularly assigned bonus or premium compensation amounts in either the former position or in the new position.
(2) If the top step rate of the salary range for the new position is the same as the top step rate of the salary range for the former position the employee shall retain the salary step from the former position.
(3) If the top step rate of the salary range for the new position is lower than the top step rate of the salary range for the former position, the employee shall receive the lower of:
a. The top step rate of the salary range for the new position, or
b. The step rate in the salary range for the new position which is the same as the employee’s step rate in the prior class; if no step rate in the range is the same, the net higher level rate in the new salary range shall apply until the employee’s next anniversary date.
(4) In no case shall an employee receive a salary that is lower than the lowest step rate of the salary range for the new position, or higher than the top step rate, including regularly assigned bonus amounts, of the salary range for the new position.
(5) When an employee returns to a higher level position the employee shall be restored to the former step and step anniversary date.
(b) Salary Rate Comparisons.
(1) All salary rate comparisons shall be made in the hourly or bi-weekly amounts for the step rates in the salary range.
(2) Flat rate salary amounts shall be considered to be the top step of the salary range for the position.
(3) Any regularly assigned bonus or premium amounts shall be included in the top step rates of the salary ranges before the top step rates of the former and new positions are compared.
(4) In determining the step placement for an employee assigned or appointed to a position in the Department of Water and Power from a position in any other City department, salary rate comparisons shall be made using the employee’s actual salary in accordance with applicable provisions of this section. The availability of higher pay levels for the employee’s classification shall not be considered in the salary step determination.
(c) Concurrent Step Advancement and Position Change. Employees who would be entitled to receive a step advancement on the same date as they are appointed or assigned to a new position on a different salary range shall be deemed to have received the step advancement prior to the appointment or assignment to the new position.
(d) Bonus/Premium Compensation Assignment. Assignment to or from a position with a regularly assigned bonus or premium rate within the same class and pay grade does not change the employee’s step placement or step advancement anniversary date.
(e) Change in Classification by the Civil Service Commission. Whenever a position is reclassified and an employee is found “legally employed” or “not illegally employed” by action of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners, such employee shall retain the salary step and anniversary date from the former classification.
(f) Retroactive Salary Ordinances. Step adjustments will be recomputed, if necessary, pursuant to the provisions of any retroactive salary ordinance.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-4-77.
Amended by: 1st and 3rd unnumbered paragraphs, Ord. No. 152,544, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; Title and Section, Ord. No. 155,181, Eff. 5-4-81; Subsec. (a)(1) and (d), adds (a)(5), Ord. No. 157,221, Eff. 11-3-82; Subsec. (f) added, Ord. No. 159,659, Eff. 2-15-85.
(a) The first salary step advancement for an employee who has been initially appointed to City service or who has been appointed or assigned to a position on a higher salary range shall take place in the payroll period which includes the date six months from the date of the appointment or assignment.
(1) Consecutive appointments to positions with the same top step salary rate in the six months following the appointment or assignment shall be treated as one appointment or assignment for step advancement purposes.
(2) Absences from duty without pay during the six months following initial appointment or in the twelve months between step advancements shall cause the date of the salary step advancement and the anniversary date to be moved forward one working day for each working day of such absences beginning with the sixteenth working day of such absences. Employees who are injured on duty are compensated in accordance with Division IV of the Labor Code of the State of California and Article 7 of Division 4 of this Code shall not have their first step increase or anniversary date change.
(3) The date six months from the date of appointment shall be the employee’s anniversary date except under circumstances provided for in Subsection (a) (2).
(b) An employee who is appointed to a new position on the same or lower salary range shall retain the step advancement anniversary date established for the former position.
(c) Each employee shall advance to the next higher step in the salary range in the payroll period which includes the employee’s anniversary date until the top step of the salary range is reached.
(d) Provisions applicable to part-time and intermittent employees:
(1) The initial salary step advancement for a part-time employee (half-time or more but less than full-time) in a position compensated on salary range shall be in the payroll period following completion of 520 hours and six months of service. Each subsequent step advancement shall be in the payroll period following the completion of 1,040 additional hours and one additional year of service. Hours of service in excess of those required for step advancement in a time period shall be carried forward for credit in the next time period.
(2) Intermittent employees or part-time employees exempted from Civil Service provisions by Charter Section 1001 shall be paid a rate corresponding to the entering step in the salary range for the classification in which the employee is employed. Full-time or half-time employees changing to intermittent status in the same Civil Service class shall continue to be paid at the same rate as which they were last paid while a full/half-time employee. Employees who, on the effective date of this section, are being compensated on a step in a salary range higher than that prescribed by this section shall receive salary at their existing rate until that rate meets or exceeds the rate prescribed by this section.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-4-77.
Amended by: 2nd unnumbered paragraph, Ord. No. 152,544, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; Title and Section, Ord. No. 155,181, Eff. 5-4-81; In Entirety, Ord. No. 159,659, Eff. 2-15-85; Ord. No. 173,308, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.
The General Manager of the Department of Water and Power may employ or retain any person in a non-represented exempt position at any step within the salary range prescribed for said position that is determined by the General Manager to be commensurate with and based on the extent, responsibility and importance of the work and the experience and ability of the employee.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 172,234, Eff. 10-16-98, Oper. 9-1-97.
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