
Posts Tagged: Staff Personnel
Salary-increase program proposed for policy-covered staff and academic appointees
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to share the good news that UC President Michael Drake has confirmed the decision to proceed with a 2023 general salary increase program for policy-covered staff employees and academic appointees (i.e., employees not represented by a collective bargaining unit) at all locations, contingent upon state funding. In the event the current budget expectations are altered, UC President Drake will provide an updated announcement at that time.
For policy-covered staff employees, salary increases will be implemented as a general increase, where all eligible policy-covered staff employees would receive a 4.6% increase to their base salary. Although this year's salary program for policy-covered staff is not a merit program where performance impacts the amount of increase, the importance of the annual performance review process should not be discounted. All policy-covered staff employees should continue to receive, at least annually, a performance review per policy. This program is separate and distinct from any UC ANR Market Adjustment program. Please review the guidelines and eligibility criteria for policy-covered staff.
For policy-covered academic appointees, the academic salary scales will be increased by a general range adjustment of 4.6%. The adjustment to the academic salary scales will be effective July 1, 2023. The regular peer-review merit advancement process for policy-covered academic appointees will continue per academic personnel policy. This program is separate and distinct from any UC ANR Market Adjustment program. Guidelines and eligibility criteria for policy-covered academic appointees will be available on the website shortly.
Please note that this increase does not apply to represented employees and academic personnel who are receiving separate increases in accordance with applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Thank you for your continued efforts to improve and enrich more lives in more communities.
Glenda Humiston
Vice President
Staff employee ePerformance evaluation training now online
Staff employees who weren't able to attend the Staff Performance Evaluations webinar on Tuesday may view the slide deck and recorded presentation, which are now posted on the Performance Management website.
The timeline includes links to the March 8 webinar and slide deck: https://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRSPU/Supervisor_Resources/Performance_Management/.
Career and contract employees with more than 6 months of service should complete their self-evaluation by March 25. Please check it out and get started soon!
STAR Award nomination deadline extended to Friday, April 17
The deadline to nominate staff for a STAR Award has been extended to 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 17. This is in response to requests from a number of managers and supervisors whose workload is impacted by the COVID-19 situation and other competing priorities. Please use this extra time to recognize and nominate staff who have achieved great things during the last year, including those who have stepped up during the current emergency.
The program provides one-time $500 cash awards to eligible staff in recognition of outstanding achievement. Managers may nominate individuals and teams demonstrating exceptional performance, creativity, organizational abilities, work success and teamwork.
Policy-covered ANR staff and members of the Clerical Unit (CX) are eligible to be nominated for STAR awards. Staff in other collective bargaining units, academics and members of the Senior Management Group are not eligible to receive STAR awards.
Nomination forms and program guidelines are available on the UC ANR Human Resources website.
Send your nominations via e-mail to humanresources@ucanr.edu by Friday, April 17, 2020.
STAR Award winners will be celebrated during an ANR recognition event on June 18, 2020, even if it's a “virtual” Zoom event.
Staff-performance appraisal webinars offered March 20, for supervisors March 26
ANR Human Resources will host two more Zoom webinars for staff and supervisors in March:
- Employee Role: March 20, Wed., 10 a.m.–11 a.m.
- Supervisor Role: March 26, Tuesday, 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Zoom: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/8151602829
- Telephone US: +1 408 638 0968 or +1 646 558 8656
- Meeting ID: 815-160-2829
This year ANR Human Resources has modified the Employee Performance Appraisal Form to align with the UC system-wide core competencies and to prepare supervisors and employees for the future online appraisal process. They will discuss what's new during the webinars.
Supervisors need only to participate in a supervisor session.
For those unable to participate during the scheduled times, recorded versions of both webinars – Employee Role and Supervisor Role – have been uploaded to the ANR HR website and are available for viewing: https://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRSPU/Supervisor_Resources/Performance_Management.
The staff performance review period runs from April 1, 2018, through March 31, 2019. An annual appraisal should be completed for all ANR staff employees, including represented and non-represented, career and contract employees with at least six months of service as of March 31, 2019.
More information about the annual process, including timelines, guidelines and Performance Appraisal Tools are available on the ANR Human Resources website: http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRSPU/Supervisor_Resources/Performance_Management.
If you have questions regarding the appraisal process, please contact Mary Vlandis at maryvlandis@ucanr.edu.
John Fox
Executive Director, Human Resources
View or leave comments for ANR Leadership at http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRUpdate/Comments.
This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.
Staff Market Adjustment Plan enters third year
Dear Colleagues:
As you know, attracting and retaining highly qualified employees is a top priority for UC ANR. One of the key goals of the 2016-2020 Strategic Plan is to address the competitiveness of the compensation for our staff and academics.
In February 2017, I approved a four-year Market-based Adjustment Plan for non-represented staff to ensure salaries of existing staff are better aligned with the labor market. Using UC Career Tracks, each year UC ANR Human Resources identifies, reviews and addresses the salaries of non-represented staff members whose pay is not in the targeted competitive zone.
All non-represented staff are eligible to participate in this plan, regardless of their position's funding source. Staff whose compensation has fallen behind market rates have received increases in each of the last two years, in addition to the annual staff merit program. This represents a significant investment in staff compensation by UC ANR. Implementing this plan over a four-year period allows us to manage the fiscal impact of the salary adjustments.
We are now implementing year three of the four-year plan, effective February 2019. Eligible employees will be notified individually in the next two weeks. For monthly paid employees, the adjustment will be included in April 1 paychecks retroactive to February 1. For bi-weekly paid employees, the adjustment will be included in April 3 paychecks retroactive to January 27. These market-based adjustments are separate and distinct from any merit program approved centrally by President Napolitano.
For more information, please read the FAQs at http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRSPU/Supervisor_Resources/Compensation/Equity_.
Sincerely,
Glenda Humiston
Vice President
View or leave comments for ANR Leadership at http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRUpdate/Comments.
This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.