2007-2011
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC
AND
TECHNICAL SERVICES UNIT
AGREEMENT
Compensation
The State and PEF shall prepare, secure
introduction and recommend passage by the Legislature of such legislation as
may be appropriate and necessary to provide the benefits below:
7.1 2007-2008
Salary Increase
Effective April 5, 2007 for employees on the administrative payroll and
March 29, 2007 for employees on the institutional payroll, the basic annual
salary of employees in full-time employment status on April 4, 2007 and March
28, 2007 respectively shall be increased by three (3.0) percent.
7.2 2007-2008 Salary Schedule
Effective April 5, 2007 for employees on the administrative payroll and
March 29, 2007 for employees on the institutional payroll, a new salary
schedule shall be established which shall consist of a hiring rate and a job
rate for grades 1 through 37 and a hiring rate for grade 38. The hiring rates
shall be the hiring rates of the salary schedule in effect on April 4, 2007 for
employees on the administrative payroll and March 28, 2007 for employees on the
institutional payroll increased by three (3.0) percent. The job rates for
grades 1 through 37 shall be the rates of the salary schedule in effect on
April 4, 2007 for employees on the administrative payroll and March 28, 2007
for employees on the institutional payroll increased by three (3.0) percent.
7.3 2008-2009 Salary Increase
Effective
April 3, 2008 for employees on the administrative payroll and March 27, 2008
for employees on the institutional payroll, the basic annual salary of
employees in full-time employment status on April 2, 2008 and March 26, 2008
respectively shall be increased by three (3.0) percent.
7.4
2008-2009 Salary Schedule
Effective April 3, 2008 for employees on the administrative payroll and
March 27, 2008 for employees on the institutional payroll, a new salary
schedule shall be established which shall consist of a hiring rate and a job
rate for grades 1 through 37 and a hiring rate for grade 38. The hiring rates
shall be the hiring rates of the salary schedule in effect on April 2, 2008 for
employees on the administrative payroll and March 26, 2008 for employees on the
institutional payroll increased by three (3.0) percent. The job rates for
grades 1 through 37 shall be the rates of the salary in effect on April 2, 2008
for employees on the administrative payroll and March 26, 2008 for employees on
the institutional payroll increased by three (3.0) percent.
7.5 2009-2010 Salary Increase
Effective
April 2, 2009 for employees on the administrative payroll and March 26, 2009
for employees on the institutional payroll, the basic annual salary of
employees in full-time employment status on April 1, 2009 and March 25, 2009
respectively shall be increased by three (3) percent.
7.6 2009-2010 Salary Schedule
Effective April 2, 2009 for employees on the administrative payroll and
March 26, 2009 for employees on the institutional payroll, a new salary
schedule shall be established which shall consist of a hiring rate and a job
rate for grades 1 through 37 and a hiring rate for grade 38. The hiring rates
shall be the hiring rates of the salary schedule in effect on April 1, 2009 for
employees on the administrative payroll and March 25, 2009 for employees on the
institutional payroll increased by three (3) percent. The job rates for grades
1 through 37 shall be the rates of the salary schedule in effect on April 1,
2009 for employees on the administrative payroll and March 25, 2009 for
employees on the institutional payroll increased by three (3) percent.
7.7 2010-2011 Salary Increase
Effective
April 1, 2010 for employees on the administrative payroll and March 25, 2010
for employees on the institutional payroll, the basic annual salary of
employees in full-time employment status on March 31, 2010 and March 24, 2010
respectively shall be increased by four (4) percent.
7.8 2010-2011 Salary Schedule
Effective April 1, 2010 for employees on the administrative payroll and
March 25, 2010 for employees on the institutional payroll, a new salary
schedule shall be established which shall consist of a hiring rate and a job
rate for grades 1 through 37 and a hiring rate for grade 38. The hiring rates
shall be the hiring rates of the salary schedule in effect on March 31, 2010
for employees on the administrative payroll and March 24, 2010 for employees on
the institutional payroll increased by four (4) percent. The job rates for
grades 1 through 37 shall be the rates of the salary schedule in effect on
March 31, 2010 for employees on the administrative payroll and March 24, 2010
for employees on the institutional payroll increased by four (4) percent.
7.9 Promotions
(a) Employees promoted or otherwise advanced to a
higher salary grade shall be paid at the hiring rate of the higher grade or
will receive a percentage increase in base pay determined as indicated below,
whichever results in a higher salary. For
purposes of this section, “base pay” shall
include any performance award(s)
received during the 12 month period immediately preceding the promotion.
For a
Promotion of An Increase of
1 grade 3.0%
2 grades 4.5%
3 grades 6.0%
4 grades 7.5%
5 grades 9.0%
(b) Reallocations and
Reclassifications
Employees in positions which are reallocated or
reclassified to a higher salary grade shall receive an increase in pay
determined in the same manner as described for promotions.
7.10 Applicability to Hourly, Part-time and Per Diem Employees
All of the above provisions shall apply on a pro
rata basis to employees paid on an hourly or per diem basis or on any basis
other than at an annual rate, or to employees paid on a part-time basis. The above provisions
shall not apply to employees paid on a fee schedule.
7.11 Performance Advances
(a) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections 7.11 (b) through 7.11 (d) below,
salary adjustments between
the hiring rates and job rates of the
salary grades shall be paid to eligible employees
in accordance with eligibility standards, procedures, and other provisions of the
PS&T Unit Performance Evaluation
System.
(b)
Performance advances
will be payable to eligible employees
on April 1 of the fiscal year immediately following completion of each
year of service in grade. For contract years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10, performance advances shall be an amount equal to one-seventh of the dollar value of the difference between the hiring rate and the job rate of the grade to
which the employee’s position is allocated or equated as contained on the appropriate salary schedule. Effective April 1, 2010, performance advances, except those to job rate,
shall be equal to the dollar amounts shown under the column “Advance Amount” in
the Appendix I salary schedule for 2010-2011.
Effective April 1, 2010, performance advances to job rate shall be equal
to the dollar amounts shown under the column “JR Advance Amount” in the same
salary schedule.
Employees hired or promoted on or after April 2 and through October 1
will have a performance advance anniversary
date of October 1. Employees hired or promoted on or after October 2 and through April
1 will have an April 1 performance advance anniversary
date. All hired or promoted employees will be required to serve
at least one year before receiving their performance advance. Once the performance advance is received, subsequent performance advances will begin on
the appropriate performance advance
anniversary
date of either October 1 or April 1.
The creation of a second performance advance anniversary date will continue the practice that all employees will serve at least one year
before the performance advance is paid but no employee will wait longer than one and one-half years.
(c) An employee’s salary may not exceed
the job rate as a result of a performance advance.
(d) The State/PEF
Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Performance
Evaluation and Performance Advances
shall be amended to incorporate the
necessary revisions to comply with
the provisions of this article.
(e) Effective
7.12
Performance Awards
(a) 2007-08
(1) Each employee who as of March 31, 2008, has completed five years or more
of continuous service as defined by Section 130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law
at a basic annual salary rate equal to or higher than the job rate of the
employee’s salary grade, and whose summary performance evaluation received
during calendar year 2007 was
higher than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall receive a five year
Performance Award.
(2) Each employee who
as of March 31, 2008, has
completed ten years or more of continuous service as defined by Section
130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law at a basic annual salary rate equal to or
higher than the job rate of the employee’s salary grade, and whose summary
performance evaluation received during calendar year 2007 was higher than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall
receive both a five year Performance Award and a ten year Performance Award.
(b) 2008-09
(1) Each employee who as of March 31, 2009, has completed five years or more
of continuous service as defined by Section 130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law
at a basic annual salary rate equal to or higher than the job rate of the
employee’s salary grade, and whose summary performance evaluation received
during calendar year 2008 was
higher than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall receive a five year
Performance Award.
(2) Each employee who
as of March 31, 2009, has
completed ten years or more of continuous service as defined by Section
130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law at a basic annual salary rate equal to or
higher than the job rate of the employee’s salary grade, and whose summary
performance evaluation received during calendar year 2008 was higher than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall
receive both a five year Performance Award and a ten year Performance Award.
(c) 2009-10
(1) Each employee who as of March 31, 2010, has completed five years or more
of continuous service as defined by Section 130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law
at a basic annual salary rate equal to or higher than the job rate of the
employee’s salary grade, and whose summary performance evaluation received
during calendar year 2009 was higher
than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall receive a five year Performance
Award.
(2) Each employee who as of March 31, 2010, has completed ten years or more
of continuous service as defined by Section 130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law
at a basic annual salary rate equal to or higher than the job rate of the
employee’s salary grade, and whose summary performance evaluation received
during calendar year 2009 was
higher than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall receive both a five year
Performance Award and a ten year Performance Award.
(d)
2010-11
(1) Each employee who as of March 31, 2011, has completed five years or more
of continuous service as defined by Section 130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law
at a basic annual salary rate equal to or higher than the job rate of the
employee’s salary grade, and whose summary performance evaluation received
during calendar year 2010 was
higher than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall receive a five year
Performance Award.
(2) Each employee who as of March 31, 2011, has completed ten years or more
of continuous service as defined by Section 130.3(c) of the Civil Service Law
at a basic annual salary rate equal to or higher than the job rate of the
employee’s salary grade, and whose summary performance evaluation received
during calendar year 2010 was
higher than “Below Minimum” or the equivalent, shall receive both a five year
Performance Award and a ten year Performance Award.
(e) 2007-08
Performance Awards shall be lump-sum, non-recurring payments in the
amount of $1,250 each for employees in full-time status as of March 31, 2008, or a pro rata share of that
amount for employees in part-time employment status on that date, and shall be
paid in April 2008.
2008-09 Performance Awards shall be lump-sum, non-recurring payments in the
amount of $1,250 each for employees in full-time status as of March 31, 2009 or a pro rata share of that
amount for employees in part-time status on that date, and shall be paid in April 2009.
2009-10 Performance Awards shall be lump-sum, non-recurring payments in the
amount of $1,250 each for employees in full-time status as of March 31, 2010 or a pro rata share of that amount for employees in part-time
employment status on that date, and shall be paid in April 2010.
2010-11 Performance Awards shall be lump-sum, non-recurring payments in the
amount of $1,250 each for employees in full-time status as of March 31, 2011 or a pro rata share of that
amount for employees in part-time employment status on that date, and shall be
paid in April 2011.
(f) Employees otherwise eligible to receive payment of
Performance Awards who, on the March 31 eligibility date, are on authorized
leave of absence without pay (preferred list, military leave, workers’
compensation leave, or approved leave of absence) shall, if they return to
active payroll status within one year of the March 31 eligibility date, be
eligible for such payment in full if in full-time status immediately prior to
such leave or shall be eligible for a pro rata share of such payment if in
part-time employment status immediately prior to such leave.
7.13 Recall and
Inconvenience Pay and Locational
Compensation
(a)
Except as otherwise hereinafter specifically provided, the present recall pay
and inconvenience pay and locational compensation programs will be continued.
(b) Effective April 2, 2007, the
inconvenience pay program will be $575
per year to employees who work four (4) hours or more between 6:00 p.m. and
(c)
Those employees in
(d) Effective April 2, 2007, employees eligible for the downstate adjustment will receive $1,302 per year.
(e) Effective April 2, 2007, employees eligible for the Mid-Hudson adjustment will receive $651.
(f) After April 2, 2007, all subsequent increases in the Downstate Adjustment and the Mid-Hudson adjustment will be as follows:
Effective Date
Administrative Institutional Downstate Mid-Hudson
April 3, 2008 March 27, 2008 $1,850 $1,000
October 2, 2008 September 25, 2008 $3,026 $1,513
7.14
Holiday Pay
(a) Any
employee who is entitled to time off with pay on days observed as holidays by
the State as an employer will receive at the employee’s option additional
compensation for time worked on such days or compensatory time off. Such
additional compensation, except as noted in 7.14(c) below, for each such full day worked will be at the rate of
1/10 of the employee’s biweekly rate of compensation.
Such additional compensation for less than a full day of such work will be
prorated. Such rate of compensation will include geographic, locational,
inconvenience, shift pay and the downstate or
Mid-Hudson adjustment as may be
appropriate to the place or hours worked. In no event will an employee be
entitled to such additional compensation or compensatory time off unless the
employee has been scheduled or directed to work.
(b) An employee electing to take compensatory
time off in lieu of holiday pay shall notify the appropriate payroll agency in
writing between April 1 and June 15, 2008, of
the employee’s intention to do so with the understanding that such notice
constitutes a waiver for the term of this Agreement of the employee’s right to
receive additional compensation for holidays worked; provided, however, that an
employee shall have the opportunity to revoke such waiver or file a waiver, if
the employee has not already done so, by notifying the appropriate payroll
agency in writing between April 1 and May 15 in each year of this Agreement of
the employee’s revocation or waiver, in which event such revocation or waiver
shall remain in effect for the remainder of the term of this Agreement.
(c) Any employee who is entitled to time off with
pay on days observed as the Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day holidays by the
State as an employer, will receive at the employee’s option additional
compensation for time worked on such days or holiday compensatory time off.
Such additional compensation for each such full day worked will be at the rate
of 3/20 of the employee’s biweekly rate of compensation.
Such additional compensation for less than a full day of such work will be
prorated. Such rate of compensation will include geographic, locational,
inconvenience, shift pay and the downstate or Mid-Hudson adjustment as may be appropriate to the place or hours worked.
7.15 Lag
(a) The “lag payroll” instituted in the 1982-85
Agreement shall remain in effect. When employees leave State service, their
final salary check shall be issued at the end of the payroll period next
following the payroll period in which their service is discontinued. This final
salary check shall be paid at the employee’s then current salary rate.
(b) The salary deferral program instituted by
legislative action in 1990, and implemented in 1991, shall remain in effect for
all employees. Employees newly added to the payroll shall have five days of
salary deferred pursuant to the provision of Chapter 947 of the Laws of 1990,
as amended by Chapter 702 of the Laws of 1991.
Employees shall recover monies deferred under
this program at the time they leave State service, pursuant to the provisions
of Chapter 947 of the Laws of 1990, as amended by Chapter 702 of the Laws of
1991.
7.16 Overtime Compensation
Compensation for
overtime work will continue to be subject to all applicable statutes, rules and
regulations, except that on and after October 1, 1990, all positions in the
PS&T Unit allocated or equated to grades 22 and below shall be deemed to be
eligible to receive overtime compensation.
7.17
Hazardous Duty Pay
Effective April 2,
2007, eligible employees shall be paid a hazardous duty differential of $0.75 per hour,
pursuant to the provisions of Civil Service Law Section 130.9.