City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manual

City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manuał

Competitive Salary Offers Number: D-22 Revision: 1 Effective Date: 04-01-2024 1.0 POLICY

Table of Contents A B C D E F H I J K L List of Appendices G 4.3 Effective Date - An effective date provision explains that all actions shall be on a current basis except for actions to adjust salaries to minimum upon implementation of salary structure adjustments. The effective date of any salary adjustment is the beginning of the next pay period in which People & Culture (P&C) approved the adjustment after receipt and review of all required supporting documentation and electronic workflows. 4.4 Position - A unique budget allocation to which an established set of duties and responsibilities is assigned. 4.5 Salary Range - The salary range minimum and salary range maximum, determined through market surveys, for any given pay grade in the salary structure. 4.6 Salary Structure - A hierarchical series of control points. 5.0 ORGANIZATIONAL RULES T he City of Greensboro provides Department Directors with flexibility to make one competitive salary offer (i.e., counter offer) to a higher salary offered by a competitor in the external labor market to an employee deemed critical to the City’s mission and operations. 2.0 PURPOSE T he purpose of a counter offer is to provide competitive salary adjustments to employees who are deemed critical to the City’s mission and on-going departmental operations when the employee receives a job offer from another employer from outside of Greensboro City government. 3.0 SCOPE This policy applies to all full-time and part-time benefited employees. 4.0 DEFINITIONS 4.1 Accountability - Managers are obligated to accept responsibility for making, justifying and documenting fair, consistent, non-discriminatory, and fiscally responsible recommendations and decisions with regard to compensation. 4.2 At-will Employment - At-will employment means that an employer can dismiss an employee at any time for any reason, except an illegal one. Likewise, an employee can quit a job at any time for any or no reason.

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