HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2017.01.26 - 22748MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #17009 January 26, 2017
BY: Commissioner Robert Hoffman, Chairperson, Human Resources Committee
IN RE: HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT — EXCEPTION TO MERIT RULE 2.2
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution *08119, Section VI-A states "The Merit System shall provide the
continued maintenance of a formal classification plan and salary schedule with the Personnel Committee
being the final County appeal body on classification matters;" and
WHEREAS the Human Resources Committee approved the establishment and implementation of a
salary administration plan using a point factor job evaluation method in 1986; and
WHEREAS a point factor job evaluation method rates jobs on 10 categories in order to determine salary
range placement; and
WHEREAS Merit Rule 2.2, Salary Grade Placement Reviews and Appeals, allows for department heads
or employees to request a salary grade review of their classification; and
WHEREAS these reviews require the Human Resources Department to conduct an in-depth job analysis
and rate the job on the 10 category point factor job evaluation plan to ensure a classification has the
appropriate salary grade placement; and
WHEREAS jobs and technology have significantly changed the way job tasks are performed; and
WHEREAS the labor market has also changed significantly and will remain highly competitive through the
next 10 years; and
WHEREAS the Human Resources Department has requested that the Purchasing Division post a
Request for Proposal (REP) for a consultant to evaluate the current point factor job evaluation plan; and
WHEREAS it is proposed that the selected vendor would recommend an update to the current point
factor job evaluation plan or recommend a new plan; and
WHEREAS it will be important to review all classifications in the point factor job evaluation plan and tie it
to a salary structure; and
WHEREAS the REP is also requesting that a salary study be conducted on all County classifications to
analyze market competitiveness; and
WHEREAS the Human Resources Department is receiving multiple requests and demands for salary
increases from all levels of classifications across the County; and
WHEREAS several classifications affecting a large number of employees have received an increase in
salary grades through a Merit Rule 2 salary grade review; and
WHEREAS the Human Resources Department is requesting to temporarily suspend the provisions of
Merit Rule 2.2 including requests for salary grade review job studies, while the REP, vendor selection, job
analysis and recommendations are in process; and
WHEREAS suspending these studies will ensure that evaluations on the current point factor job
evaluation plan do not place a classification incorrectly on the new or revised job evaluation plan which
would affect appropriate salary grade placement; and
WHEREAS an employee may be placed too high in the salary structure or paid too high in comparison to
the labor market which will negatively impact their future salary causing over-compensating a job, frozen
salaries and potential morale issues; and
WHEREAS the adoption of an updated or new Salary Administration Plan will come to the Board of
Commissioners for approval.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners approves the suspension of
Merit Rule 2.2 Salary Grade Reviews until a new or updated salary administration plan is implemented.
This temporary suspension will last through January of 2018 unless the Human Resources Department
comes to the Human Resources Committee to request an extension.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Human Resources Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
Comrnissione obe
Chairperson, Huma
man, District* 2
esources Committee
HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #17009 January 26, 2017
Moved by Kochenderfer supported by McGillivray the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the
amended Consent Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Crawford, Fleming, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowa, Long,
McGillivray, Middleton, Spisz, Taub, Tietz, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Berman, Bowman. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended
Consent Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
GERALD D. POISSON
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCI, 45,559A(7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on January 26,
2017, with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at
Pontiac, Michigan this 26th day of January, 2017.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County