ACSS met with the Department of Human Resources (CalHR) on June 15, 2021 to discuss pay and benefits for the state’s supervisory, managerial, confidential and exempt employees.
Excluded Employee Pay Plan for 2021-2022
CalHR has confirmed to ACSS that the Personal Leave Program (PLP) salary reductions of 9.23% will end effective June 30, 2021. Full salaries will be restored for all excluded employees and accrual of PLP days will end. CalHR has also confirmed that generally, excluded employees will receive the same percentage salary increases as the bargaining unit to which they are affiliated.
The Exempt and Excluded Employee Pay Plan includes:
- An end to the Personal Leave Program salary reduction of 9.23%
- General Salary Increases effective July 1, 2021:
| EXCLUDED EMPLOYEES AFFILIATED WITH BARGAINING UNIT: |
GSI |
| 1, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21 (SEIU Units) |
4.55% |
| 2 (+1.33% additional salary adjustment for all) |
4.04% |
| 5 |
4.90% |
| 6 |
5.58% |
| 7 |
5.06% |
| 9 |
5.58% |
| 10 |
7.63% |
| 12 |
5.06% |
| 13 |
5.83% |
| 16 |
5.06% |
| 18 |
5.58% |
| 19* |
5.06% |
- Special Salary Adjustments and Pay Differentials will be extended to exempt and excluded employees where appropriate.
- Employees will resume the “OPEB” contribution to pre-fund retiree health care (the amount varies from 1.4% to 4.6% of salary). The deduction is expected to resume with the August 2021 pay warrant.
- All exempt and excluded employees associated with the SEIU bargaining units will continue to receive the $260 taxable cash benefit (health affordability payment) through June 30, 2022.
Exempt and Excluded Employees not directly tied to a bargaining unit (such as many employees who have an “E” Collective Bargaining Identifier) are expected to receive the 4.55% GSI.
CalHR is working on the “Pay Letters” and expects the salary adjustments to be reflected in the July pay warrants. As the pay letters are developed, ACSS will continue advocacy with CalHR to ensure excluded employees receive all appropriate special salary adjustments.
Negotiations between CalHR and the representatives for rank-and-file bargaining unis 8, 10 and 19 for new labor contracts continue. ACSS has proposed that any increases in those MOUs also be provided to related excluded employees.
Other Salary and Benefit Advocacy for ACSS Members Continues
At the June 15, 2021 meeting, CalHR and ACSS continued the discussion of salary inequities and classification issues for excluded employees.
CalHR has again committed to providing substantive responses to many ACSS proposals including:
- Allocating Nursing Consultant, Program Review employees to State Safety Retirement
- Salary inequity adjustments for Program Directors, Program Assistants, and Unit Supervisors
- Salary inequity adjustments for excluded Environmental Planners, Transportation Planners and Right-of-Way Agents
- Reclassification and salary adjustments for the excluded employees in the Health Facility Evaluator Series
- Salary inequity adjustments for the Food Service Supervisor excluded classes for fiscal year 2020-2021.
ACSS will continue to keep impacted members apprised of the status of potential increases to pay and benefits.
* BU 19 UPDATED as of 7/1/2021