THE FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE ABOVE MOTION.
The Government Supervisors Association of Florida, Supervisory Unit represents one of the County’s largest bargaining units with approximately 330 supervisory employees. The previous Collective Bargaining Agreement (Agreement) for this unit expired on September 30, 2017. Negotiations for a successor agreement have resulted in a new three-year agreement.
Exhibit 3 summarizes the changes to the Agreement. In addition to a variety of administrative and operational changes regarding promotional increase language to be consistent with the County’s compensation methodology, hours worked during declared emergency time frames and applicability to overtime, and inclusion of preference for Veterans in the Reduction in Force provisions, the Agreement provides for compensation for the covered employees. For Fiscal Year 2017/2018, the Agreement provides a 3% base salary increase (within the salary range) for eligible bargaining unit employees, effective October 8, 2017. In addition, effective April 8, 2018, for eligible bargaining unit employees with five or more years of continuous service experience in their current County job classifications, who are below the 25th percentile of their pay grade, shall have their salary adjusted upward to the 25th percentile of their pay grade. The County also agrees to develop a process to collect employee education, certificates/licenses and critical/unique skills to creating a skills inventory for bargaining unit employees. The Agreement further provides the County Administrator the authority to adjust the pay grades upward based on market review outside of the bargaining process.
For Fiscal Year 2018/2019, effective October 7, 2018, eligible bargaining unit employees will receive a 2% base salary increase (within salary range). In addition, effective April 7, 2019, eligible bargaining unit employees with three or more years of continuous service experience in their current County job classifications, and who are below the 25th percentile of their pay grade, shall have their salary adjusted upward to the 25th percentile of their pay grade.
For Fiscal Year 2019/2020, the Agreement provides a wage reopener clause and the ability for each party to open any three additional articles.
The agreement also includes two Letters of Understanding: 1. Labor Management Committee to meet and confer to discuss alternatives to the current Sick Leave Monitoring Policy, and 2. Thereafter Step Adjustment - a one-time salary adjustment to address salary compaction issues for eligible employees in the Transit Supervisors and Skilled Trades Supervisor job classifications in the Transit Division, effective the first full pay period in January 2018.
The Agreement was successfully ratified by the Union on December 6, 2017. The Agreement is being presented with staff’s recommendation for approval by the Board.
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