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Item 21
Meeting Date 6/21/88
ITEM TITLE: Resolution ~3 ~3 8 - Finding Compensation of Unrepresented
City Employees Unfixed and Uncertain
SUBMITTED BY: Assistant City Manager
REVIEWED BY: City Manager 4/5ths Vote: Yes No X
Constitutional constraints surrounding the City's ability to alter compensation
of its employees after service has been rendered requires the City Council to adopt
the attached resolution making the finding that compensation for unrepresented City
officers and employees is "unfixed and uncertain" on and after July 1, 1988.
RECOMMENDATION: Adopt resolution.
OARDS/COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION: N.A.
SCUSSION:
Negotiations with the Western Council of Engineers may not be completed prior to
the beginning of the next fiscal year. The compensation of employees represented
by WCE becomes "unfixed and uncertain" as a matter of law upon the expiration of
their current MOU (June 30, 1988) since they are engaged in negotiations for a successor
agreement. This means that retroactivity of salary and benefits for WCE is a negotiable
issue. In the case of unrepresented employees or officers (including department
heads and middle managers), constitutional constraints would not allow for retroactive
adjustments to compensation of unrepresented employees or officers unless a declaration
and finding by the City Council is made that such compensation is "unfixed and uncertain"
Adoption of the resolution does not automatically provide for retroactivity for
unrepresented employees but provides a mechanism whereby the City Council can legally
make that determination after the start of FY 1988-89.
FISCAL IMPACT: N.A.
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