Department Salary Committee Sample Clauses

Department Salary Committee. Each department shall annually establish a Department Salary Committee chaired by the Department Head. The committee shall consist of the chair and a minimum of three eligible employees of the department. Eligible employees include those holding probationary, tenured, continuing status, or term appointments if the term of appointment is for more than one academic year and there is at least another academic year remaining in the term of appointment at the time of appointment to the committee. In the event that the Department is unable to constitute a committee with the minimum number of members, the committee shall consist of all eligible employees of the department. A committee member whose own case is considered shall still participate on the committee, except that when the committee member’s own case is considered the committee member will be excluded from the proceedings of the committee.

Department Salary Committee. The Department Salary Committee shall: (i) propose standards of performance for the award of Special Increases; (ii) communicate these standards, in writing, to the College Review Committee and, on approval, to all employees in the department; (iii) receive, review and rank the submissions of each employee who is eligible to be considered except the head, and award either one-half or one full Special Increase where appropriate; (iv) submit the Department’s decisions for the award of Special Increases to the College Review Committee; (v) recommend to the College Review Committee for additional Special Increases those eligible employees, except the head, who have been awarded a Special Increase by the department and who may merit an additional award; (vi) recommend to the College Review Committee for Special Increases those eligible employees in the department, except the head, to whom the Department Salary Committee would have awarded Special Increases except that the Committee had insufficient funds available to make such awards; (vii) submit to the College Review Committee those employees not awarded or recommended for a special increase and the justification for the salary action; (viii) inform employees in the department of the Committee’s rankings, decisions for the award of Special Increases and recommendations to the College Review Committee, as well as the Committee’s reasons for such awards and recommendations;