BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
SB 1058 (Pan) - State employment: supervisors
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|Version: April 4, 2016 |Policy Vote: P.E. & R. 5 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: April 18, 2016 |Consultant: Robert Ingenito |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: SB 1058 would add peace officer supervisors of
employees in State Bargaining Unit 7 (California Statewide Law
Enforcement Association) to the group of peace officer
supervisors who are required to receive salary and benefits
changes that are at least generally equivalent to the salary and
benefits granted to employees they supervise.
Fiscal Impact: The bill could result in unknown, potentially
significant costs associated with salary increases resulting
from addressing compaction.
Background: Salary compaction and parity are key issues facing
the state in compensating management employees. Salary
compaction occurs when the salaries of subordinate employees
approach, and in some cases exceed, the salary of their
supervisors. State policy is that supervisory and managerial
employees receive salaries 10 percent above the pay of the
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classes they supervise.
The California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) is
responsible for setting the salaries of exempt and excluded
state employees. There is no statutory requirement to extend a
pay package that was bargained for represented employees to
related excluded employees.
Under current law, supervisors of employees represented by the
following state bargaining units (BU) shall receive salary and
benefits changes that are at least generally equivalent to the
salary and benefits provided to the employees they supervise:
State Bargaining Unit 5: California Association of
Highway Patrol
State Bargaining Unit 6: California Correctional Peace
Officers Association
State Bargaining Unit 8: California Department of
Forestry Firefighters
Peace officers in Bargaining Unit 7 include state parks rangers
and fish and wildlife wardens, Alcoholic Beverage Control
agents, Department of State Hospitals officers, special agents
with the Department of Justice, deputy state fire marshals, and
inspectors and investigators in various state departments who
are designated as peace officers. Those who directly supervise
these represented peace officers are also designated as peace
officers.
Proposed Law: SB 1058 would add peace officer supervisors of
employees in Bargaining Unit 7 to those supervisors that shall
receive salary and benefits changes that are generally
equivalent to those provided to the employees they supervise.
Related Legislation: SB 216 (Beall, 2013), would have required
CalHR to address salary compaction for managerial and
supervisorial employees and provide data to the Legislature when
insufficient revenue is available to implement a salary
determination to increase managerial and supervisorial salaries
by 10 percent over the salaries of their subordinate rank and
file employees. The bill was vetoed by the Governor.
Staff Comments: Salary and wage compaction is often an
unintended consequence of collective bargaining agreements that
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result in increased salaries for rank and file employees, but do
not guarantee a correlating salary increase for the excluded and
exempt employees who supervise those covered under collective
bargaining agreements. Often, when an agreement or MOU is
reached with a state bargaining unit, certain provisions are
also extended to related classes of employees who are excluded
from bargaining. However, there is no statutory requirement to
extend a pay package that was bargained for represented
employees, or to study the impact of the MOU on related excluded
classes. Over many years of not extending salary increases to
managers and supervisors, the problem of salary compaction has
increased to the point where many departments have difficulty
filling excluded positions.
CalHR is still compiling the data needed to produce a refined
fiscal estimate for this bill. However, CalHR indicates that
Bargaining Unit 7 currently has 7,459 rank and file members. The
number of supervisors totals 1,147, comprised of over 70
supervisor classifications spanning 49 state departments. No
single department employs more than 16 percent of Bargaining
Unit 7 supervisors.
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