HR Update; September 19, 2008
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- UC Again Improves Wage Offer to AFSCME for Service Workers
- New Workshop! How to Conduct Effective Meetings: Oct. 22, $35
- Reasonable Accommodation Process Changes
- UC Retirement Readiness Education Programs
UC Again Improves Wage Offer to AFSCME for Service Workers
On Friday, September 12, UC presented AFSCME with an improved package proposal that would provide a minimum of $20.3 million in wage increases for UC service employees over the next 28 months. The offer also includes transition to an experienced-based step salary structure. Included in this offer is a proposal to raise the minimum hourly salary rate for service employees from $10.28 to $13.25 over this time period.
The University’s most recent proposal was designed to respond to the Union’s demands for experience-based steps, which would provide increases to service employees based on their years of experience at UC. In addition to outlining experience-based step increases, the University’s most recent proposal includes the following:
Wages:
Year One: $11.3 million in wage-related increases
- Increase minimum rate to $12/hour
- Transition to experience-based step salary structure
- Local equity proposals
Year Two: $6.2 million in wage-related increases
- Increase minimum rate to $12.73/hour
- Step increase for employees already paid at or above $12.73/hour
- Meet and confer on an across-the-board increase if the Governor’s Compact is funded and there are no budget reductions
Year Three: $2.8 million in wage-related increases
- Increase minimum rate to $13.25/hour
- Meet and confer on across-the-board and/or step increases
Health Care Benefits: The same high-quality health benefit plans offered to all other UC employees in which lower paid employees pay lower monthly premiums than other staff. UC’s last proposal outlined conditions for possible reopeners on benefits as well.
Retirement: UC employees have not had to contribute toward the cost of their pension benefits – considered the gold standard by many – for more than 18 years due in part to strong investment performance. UC’s last proposal outlined conditions for possible reopeners on retirement as well.
The University extended this enhanced proposal to its previous offer in an earnest effort to reach agreement for service employees. AFSCME is currently considering the offer, and UC remains hopeful that an agreement can be reached with compromise from both sides.
For more information, please visit the Bargaining Update Web page on At Your Service.
New Workshop! How to Conduct Effective Meetings: Oct. 22, $35
Time is one of the most important resources UCSF employees use to accomplish their missions and goals. Yet how often has a meeting felt like a waste of time?
The How to Conduct Effective Meetings workshop—presented by Elaine Fukuhara Schilling, MPA former Director of Training at UC Berkley, MSAP Assessor, and School of Business adjunct faculty at California State University, San Francisco—explores how to run effective meetings so participants are engaged and productive. Key topics include:
- Identify characteristics of effective meetings
- Manage the phases of a meeting
- Facilitate groups towards their goals
- Being a good participant
Register for this workshop today.
For additional information, please contact Don Diettinger, Human Resources Development and Training Department, at or x64841.
Reasonable Accommodation Process Changes
UCSF, like all employers, has an obligation to engage in a thorough interactive process with any employee who has a disability or health problem impacting their work to determine if a reasonable accommodation can be provided. If an employee with a disability cannot be accommodated in their current position, reasonable accommodation through placement into an open position needs to occur.
At UCSF, changes have recently been developed to enhance the process of placing employees with disabilities into open positions if they cannot be accommodated in their jobs. These changes have been developed jointly with the campus, medical center, and the office of legal affairs and have been reviewed with the control points.
In addition to robust documentation of a thorough interactive process, changes include the following:
- The name of the process will be changed to Priority Reassignment. The former name was Special Selection.
- Employees in Priority Reassignment will receive training and orientation to the program from Disability Management and Staffing and Compensation Analysts.
- For a period of 90 days, Priority Reassignment candidates will have the opportunity to identify positions for which they are interested and qualified during the first two weeks the job is posted (or less if the required posting period is less than two weeks).
- If determined to be qualified, the hiring managers will be notified.
- Hiring managers will need to make a final determination if the priority reassignment candidate is qualified before considering other candidates.
- A hiring manager determination that a priority reassignment candidate is not qualified will need to be thoroughly documented and will be reviewed.
These changes became effective on October 5, 2007.
If you have questions, please contact your Sr. Disability Management Analyst.
Jerry Ulmer, Senior Disability Management Analyst (Schools of Dentistry/Pharmacy/Nursing/FAS)
476-0609 or julmer at hr.ucsf.edu
Judy Rosen Senior Disability Management Analyst (School Of Medicine)
502-2760 or jrosen at hr.ucsf.edu
UC Retirement Readiness Education Programs
Please pass this on to your colleagues, circulate invitations, post the actual scheduled workshops happening near your location, or otherwise re-broadcast these weekly reminders about our valuable (free) education programs for faculty and staff. Bring your lunch, your questions, your spouse/partner ...
- UC Retirement Plan (UCRP)—UC’s Defined Benefit Plan
- “The Features of UCRP”
- Returning Soon
- Refer to these schedules for details and future workshops
- The Future of UCRP
- UC Retirement Savings Plans—the 403(b), 457(b), and DC Plans
- “Enrolling in Your UC Retirement Savings Program”
- Returning Soon
- “Determining Your Right Investment Strategy”
- Returning Soon
- “Achieving a Sound Retirement”
- Returning Soon
- “Understand the How-tos of Fidelity’s NetBenefits Website”
- Returning Soon
- Refer to these schedules for details and future workshops
- Arrange to have these workshops at a meeting in your department
- Focus on Your Future!
Usually there can be at least one (or more) workshop(s) per week scheduled at various UCSF locations around town. For more details and listings for upcoming scheduled presentations, please refer to our Workshops and Presentations Schedules menus found at our local UCSF HR/Benefits website.
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