PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: July 13, 2000.
Purpose: This new rules and modification will allow the personnel officer of an institution of higher education on the appointing authority of an agency flexibility to adjust a current employee's salary within the range to address issues that are related to recruitment and retention.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: New WAC 251-08-075 Salary adjustments; and amending WAC 356-14-070 Salary -- Limits.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 41.06.150.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 00-12-074 on June 6, 2000.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 1, Amended 1, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: September 1, 2000.
July 19, 2000
Dennis Karras
Secretary
The personnel officer may authorize a salary adjustment for an employee within the salary range of the current class to address issues that are related to recruitment ad retention, such as equity, alignment, or competitive market conditions.
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(1) No employee shall be compensated at a basic salary rate greater than the maximum or less than the minimum step of the salary range to which the class had been allotted, unless the director authorizes a different rate in cases of reallocation downward or in other cases involving unusual circumstances where equity requires a different rate of pay.
(2) The appointing authority may authorize a salary adjustment for an employee within the salary range of the current class to address issues that are related to recruitment and retention, such as equity, alignment, or competitive market conditions.
(3) On appeals from reallocation downward the decision of the director or designee, and/or the personnel appeals board, may be made effective retrospectively to the effective date of the appealed reallocation. In all other cases the decision shall only be made effective prospectively. All such requests and justifications must be submitted to the board in writing within 15 calendar days from the effective date of the action from which the request originates.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 41.06.150. 98-19-034, § 356-14-070, filed 9/10/98, effective 10/12/98; Order 96, § 356-14-070, filed 12/10/76, effective 1/12/77; Order 36, § 356-14-070, filed 7/1/71, effective 8/1/71. Formerly WAC 356-08-130.]