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Human Resources Department recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign the negotiated Letter of Agreement to the Memorandum of Understanding between the County of El Dorado and El Dorado County Employees’ Association, Local No. 1, AFSCME Council 57 representing the General, Professional, and Supervisory bargaining units.
FUNDING: Various.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
County of El Dorado (County) and El Dorado County Employees’ Association, Local No. 1, AFSCME Council 57 (Local 1), representing employees in the General (GE), Professional (PL), and Supervisory (SU) bargaining units, have an executed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the period of September 12, 2020 to December 31, 2023.
Pursuant to the terms of the MOU, effective the pay period beginning November 20, 2021, the County increased base wages for Local 1 represented benchmark classifications and internally tied non-benchmark classifications to approximately 3.0% (+/- 1%) behind the median of the County’s April 2020 comparable agency GE, PL, SU units’ compensation survey.
Subsequently, in March 2022, the Board of Supervisors approved and adopted a MOU between the County and the Operating Engineers, Local No. 3 (OE3) representing employees in the Trades and Crafts (TC) bargaining unit, which increased the base wages for OE3 represented benchmark classifications and internally tied non-benchmark classifications to approximately median (+/- 1%) of the TC unit compensation survey.
Local 1, in good faith, reached agreement on a successor MOU earlier than the TC unit; subsequent to the adoption of the Local 1 MOU, the County was able to offer the TC unit more favorable base wage compensation terms than was offered to the GE, PL, and SU units. Both as an act of good will for parity and in consideration of the County’s difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees, Human Resources Department recommends the Board adopt the Letter of Agreement (LOA) with Local 1, to ...
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