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Orange County <br />Board of Commissioners <br />Action Agenda Item Abstract <br />Meeting Date: September i, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No.2 <br />Subject: Personnel Ordinance Revision - Promotion Pay Policy <br />Department: Personnel Public Hearing: Yea No x <br />Budget Amendment <br />Needed: Yes No x <br />Atbchment(s): <br />Information Contact: <br />1 - Draft Personnel Ordinance Revision - <br />Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director <br />Article 5.0, Pay Plan <br />Extension 2550 <br />2- Promotion and Reclassification Policy <br />Survey of Area Employers <br />Telephone Number: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 988 4501 <br />Durham 888 -7331 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Purpose: To consider amending the Orange County Personnel Ordinance <br />to change the policies covering employee pay handling on <br />promotion and reclassification. <br />Background: Promotion <br />A promotion occurs when an employee transfers to another <br />position at a higher salary grade. For example, it is a promotion <br />if an employee transfers from a Child Protective Services Social <br />Worker position (salary grade 70) to a Child Protective Services <br />Supervisor position (salary grade 72). <br />Currently, the Orange County Personnel Ordinance provides <br />that when an employee is promoted the employee receives a <br />one -step salary increase (about five percent) or an increase to <br />the minimum step of the new salary range, whichever is higher <br />In exceptional cases with the Managers approval, the <br />department may grant a two step salary increase (about 10 <br />percent). <br />The Attachment 1 draft Personnel Ordinance revision would <br />provide that upon promotion the employee : <br />u Receives at least a one step (about five percent) salary <br />increase or an increase to the minimum of the new salary <br />