HARMONIZATION / JOB EVALUATION / PAY EQUITY HIGHLIGHTS

 

  1. Harmonization / Job Evaluation / Pay Equity fully achieved effective December 31, 2004.
     
  2. Two thousand five hundred (2,500) classifications reduced to three hundred and thirty-five (335).
     

  3. Wage line established effective December 31, 2004, provides for wage increases for over eighty percent (80%) of the employees in the bargaining unit effective December 31, 2004 with wage adjustments annually for a number of years.
     

  4. Wage line based on hourly rates with twenty (20) wage grades each with four (4) step increments.
     

  5. For most employees receiving increases, effective December 31, 2004, movement is fifty percent (50%) of the difference between employee’s actual rate and next highest rate on the grid payable for the harmonized job into which the employee has been placed.

    Effective December 31, 2005, rate adjusted fully to the next highest rate with progressional increases on an annual basis thereafter. Exception is employees who received progressional increases after December 31, 2004 and prior to date of award. These employees treated like all others except timing of increases measured from date of last progressional increase.
     

  6. 1.75 Million in lieu of retroactivity distributed pro rata to each employee receiving an increase. Also retroactivity payable from December 31, 2004.
     

  7. Pay Equity adjustments for the period May 11, 2000 to December 30, 2004 based on gender based comparison of male and female predominated jobs pre-harmonization and proportional value methodology where no male dominated comparator. Adjustment fully retroactive to May 11, 2000 for all employees occupying or who occupied underpaid female predominated jobs during the period.
     

  8. Job Evaluation Program ensuring that all newly created jobs on a go forward basis and all changes to existing harmonized jobs are appropriately described and rated in conformity with the Program and slotted on the wage line in accordance with their value. Program administered by a Joint Committee comprised of Local 79 and City appointees.