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In the State, employee base pay is first determined when hired. Changes to an
employee's base pay can be made as he/she go through his/her career in these ways:
CHANGE IN JOB
When an employee changes job responsibilities, he/she may receive a:
DIFFERENTIAL PAY
Differential pay is non-performance based pay usually given to accommodate a specific
working condition. The State offers several types of differential pay to employees.
There are both state and federal requirements on how to address employee overtime.
The Overtime Management Guide addresses most questions regarding this subject.
I. FLSA Overtime - federal guidelines for paying employees who work overtime.
II. State Comp Time - state guidelines for paying employees who work overtime.
III. Longevity Pay - state guidelines for paying employees based on state service time.
IV. Shift Differential - state guidelines for paying employees that work shifts different
than a normal schedule.
V. Hazardous Duty Pay - state guidelines for paying employees based on performing
work that could be hazardous to their health.
VI. On-Call Pay - state guidelines for paying employees for being on-call.
VII. Benefits Replacement Pay - state guidelines for paying employees the employer's
portion of Social Security taxes.
VARIABLE PAY
Variable pay is compensation that is contingent on discretion, performance or results. It
may be referred to as "pay at risk."
INDIRECT COMPENSATION
Training Hours - The time that employees are allowed for training activities and for
which they receive pay.
NOT AT WORK
Sick leave
State employees are entitled eight hours of sick leave per month. Sick leave with pay
may be taken when an employee is prevented from performing duties because of
sickness, injury, or pregnancy and confinement. Sick leave may also be taken if an
employee needs to care for a member of his or her immediate family who is actually ill.
Sick leave may be taken to care for members of an employee's family who do not reside
in the same household only if the time taken is necessary to provide care to a spouse,
child, or parent of the employee who needs such care as a direct result of a documented
medical condition.
To be eligible for accumulated sick leave with pay for a continuous period of more than
three working days, an employee must send the administrative head of his or her agency
a doctor's certification, or an acceptable written statement of facts, showing the nature of
the illness.
Agency heads may grant employees extended sick leave if they believe it is warranted.
Each agency may establish a sick leave pool where employees donate hours to the pool
to be used by other employees who experience a catastrophic illness or injury that
forces an employee to use all of their sick leave time.
Holiday
State agency employees are entitled to a paid day off from work on national and state
holidays observed by the state. These holidays are specified by the Legislature each
session. A state agency must have enough state employees on duty during a state
holiday to conduct the public business of the agency except for those state holidays that
fall on a Saturday or Sunday, the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, December 24th, or
December 26th.
Employees who actually work on a national holiday or a state holiday will be allowed
compensatory time off during the 12-month period following the date of the holiday
worked.
Admin leave
Agency heads are allowed to grant 32 hours of administrative leave per fiscal year to
employees for outstanding performance.
Vacation
Employees receive vacation leave based on length of their service.
Jury Service
An state employee is entitled to serve on a jury without any deduction from wages.
Officers or employees of the Senate, the House of Representatives, or any organization in
the legislative branch of state government establish exemption from state jury service.
Emergency leave
State employees are entitled to time off with pay for a death in the family. An employee's
family is defined as the employee's spouse, the employee's and the spouse's parents,
and children, brothers, sisters, grandparents, and grandchildren of the employee. An
agency head may also grant emergency leave for other reasons determined to be for
good cause.
Social Security and Medicare Taxes (FICA) - Taxes intended to help the elderly with
retirement and health care costs.
Retirement - program designed to provide an income for your retirement and other
future financial needs.
Deferred Compensation Plans - employer deduction from pay where employee does
not pay tax until they receive the distributions at a later date.
NON-FINANCIAL COMPENSATION
Non-financial compensation is different incentives given to employees that are not in the
form of direct pay.
Alternative Work Schedules - there are many alternatives to a traditional 5 day, 8-hour
work schedule.