COLAs and Furloughs for Unrepresented

Per a document published on 6/24/09 by the Department of Personnel Services titled : BUDGET DECISIONS IMPACTING SOME UNREPRESENTED POSITIONS.

COLAs - In December 2006, the Board of Supervisors approved a five-year plan that gave unrepresented employees automatic cost-of-living increases each year. While the first three years of the plan have been implemented, the Board approved waiving COLA increases in FY 2009/10 for unrepresented employees in units 028, 060, and 080.

Furloughs - Beginning July 1, 2009, and effective through June 19, 2010, each full-time unrepresented employee in units 028, 060, and 080 will be required to take one unpaid furlough day per month (12 total). Employees will be required to use all furlough days by June 30, 2010. Employees who have received approval to have their work schedule reduced to less than full-time are not required to take furlough days.

For purposes of calculating employer and employee contributions to the Sacramento County Employees Retirement System (SCERS), and for purposes of calculating employee and employer contributions, service credits, and retirement benefits under SCERS, the furloughs will have no effect on the affected classifications.

This document can be downloaded through a link on the DPPA website.

Meeting with the CIO and Labor Relations

Steve Keil setup a meeting today, June 19th, 2009 at 2pm with the CIO, David Villanueva, and DPPA to talk about what the Board of Supervisors had done last week. In this meeting Labor Relations told us the Board had made the decision to take away the COLA and impose a monthly furlough for Representation Unit 028 and give us nothing in return. I had hoped that the money saved would go back to the departments from which it came. Unfortunately that is not the case. The money goes back to the General Fund to be used however the Board of Supervisor’s decides.

Board of Supervisor’s decision

As you are all aware from reading the CEO’s message yesterday, the Board of Supervisors has added Representation Unit 028 (Date Processing Professionals Association), 060 (Administrative) and 080 (Unrepresented) to what the Managers have already accepted in April which is monthly furloughs and elimination of the cost of living (COLA) that we were expecting in July 2009. This is not final until the Board has voted on the new budget.

 

Received Lay-Off Document

Last Friday, June 5th, 2009, I received a document that had the lay-offs positions; not the people; of Representation Unit 028, which is the group of people that Data Processing Professionals Association (DPPA) covers. There were 12.2 filled positions to be let go. These were broken down by Departments:

1. 0.4 – Clerk of the Board / Board of Supervisors


2. 0.8 – Planning Comm / Dev


3. 5.0 – Health and Human Services


4. 4.0 – O.C.I.T. (Communication & Info Technology)


5. 2.0 – Human Assistance / Administration

This is the fourth version of this document that I had received and the number has gone down with every one, from 16.8 to 15.8 and now 12.2.