- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Guidelines for merit increases for ANR academics and non-represented staff
Dear Colleagues:
As a follow up to President Yudof’s August 17 letter about merit-based salary increases for academics and staff, the following guidelines outline how the increases will be implemented.
Information about 2011-12 UC merit increases
General
· As the president’s letter states, the merit program is aimed at helping UC recruit and retain academics, and also to acknowledge non-represented staff...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues:
As you may know, the UC Board of Regents last November approved funds in UC’s 2011-12 budget to provide a pool for merit-based salary increases for faculty and staff.
I am writing to share with you the letter from President Yudof to chancellors that outlines the general terms of the merit program and explains his decision to exclude senior-level managers from participation. Yudof's letter can be read at http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/news/general/
chancellors_faculty_staff_merit_increase.081711.pdf.
As President Yudof states, the merit program is aimed at helping recruit and retain...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Colleagues:
UC is implementing a new program, the Employee-initiated Reduction in Time (ERIT) program, for the time period of July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012. UC ANR has elected to participate in this program with the stipulation that the approval must be made by the supervisor AND the head of the unit (Statewide Program Director, REC Director, CD, Support Unit Director, etc.).
This program is intended as an optional tool that locations and organizational units may offer to employees to address the current budget crisis. Under this program, eligible staff employees may voluntarily reduce their time and corresponding pay in exchange for certain advantages, such as accrual of vacation and sick leave at the employee’s...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
A program that allowed faculty, academics, and staff to voluntarily reduce work hours in exchange for a corresponding pay reduction is scheduled to end. The Staff and Academic Reduction in Time program, or START, was enacted as a temporary measure to help the University of California cope with budget shortfalls will end on Dec. 31, 2010.
John Fox, UCOP director of Human Resource Policies, stated, "Although many employees have appreciated the program and it has helped UC save on salaries, this is the right time for it to end."
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
The ANR Staff Personnel Unit (SPU) within the Office of the Associate Vice President-Business Operations is the principal department for staff personnel matters for all ANR county-based and other off-site units and provides staff personnel services in these areas:
- Classification
- Compensation
- Recruitment
- Employment
- Employee and labor relations
- Interpretation of UC system-wide personnel policies
- Collective bargaining agreements
- People Administration -- Classification Applicant Tracking System
The SPU is located on the Davis campus in the ANR Building. It has been functioning since January 2010, and on July 1,...