Common use of Classification and Compensation Study Clause in Contracts

Classification and Compensation Study. The District agrees to finance a classification and compensation study to be performed by an outside professional consultant for all classifications represented by AFSCME during the term of this MOU. The consultant will be retained within 90 days of Board approval of this MOU, and ideally sooner, and the study will begin in calendar year 2017. The District and AFSCME agree to establish a joint Class and Comp Study Task Force that shall meet regularly and shall have up to five District representatives and five AFSCME representatives including Business Agent. During these Task Force meetings, the District will provide updates on the status of the class and comp study and AFSCME representatives may provide input on issues relevant to the study. In addition, the consultant will receive information from the Task Force regarding the number of agencies and the agencies to which District classifications will be compared in the study, and discuss with the Task Force the consultant’s views with respect to the comparison agencies the consultant intends to use. The Task Force shall exist solely for discussing the class and comp study, and the Task Force shall dissolve and no longer exist upon termination of this 2017-2021 MOU. In addition, the consultant will provide the District and AFSCME representatives on the Task Force with a copy of a draft report of the study. The parties agree the consultant should complete and provide the draft report within 18 months of the consultant’s retention. Within 30 calendar days following receipt of the consultant’s draft report, AFSCME may provide the District, with a cc to the consultant, with any comments on the draft report. After the 30 calendar day comment period, the consultant will finalize the class and comp study. The District will forward AFSCME a copy of the final report promptly upon receipt. Within 30 days of receipt of the final report, the District and AFSCME will meet to discuss potential wage equity adjustments based on the results of the study. The District and AFSCME agree that the District will set aside $1,000,000 and make equity adjustments to mutually agreed upon classifications, to be effective April 1, 2019. If after 60 days following receipt of the final report, the District and AFSCME do not reach agreement on how the $1,000,000 will be spent, the $1,000,000 will be applied as equity adjustments for those classifications furthest behind the survey market as identified and concluded by the consultant in the study. For example, if there was a classification 8% behind market as of the date utilized by the consultant for survey comparisons, another 7% behind market, and another 6% behind market, monies would first be spent to move the classification 8% behind market to 7% behind market. The next adjustment would be to move that same classification and the classification identified by the consultant as 7% behind market in the study, to 6% behind market. This approach would continue until the $1,000,000 is depleted. The $1,000,000 is understood to be for annualized wage adjustment costs, with retroactivity to April 1, 2019 if necessary, taking into account the full cost of a wage increase (e.g. including wage related costs such as pension, social security, taxes, etc.) The parties agree that, in addition to the discussions of the class and comp study and equity adjustments discussed above, the parties will discuss the results of the class and comp study as part of good faith MOU negotiations on a successor MOU to this 2017- 2021 MOU.