Common use of Special Salary Pool for Outside Offers of Employment and Merit Recognition Clause in Contracts

Special Salary Pool for Outside Offers of Employment and Merit Recognition. The CSU Administration may raise the salary of a bargaining unit faculty member beyond negotiated levels to retain a faculty member or to counter bona fide offers of employment. Funds for such increases shall be in addition to those detailed in the general salary package negotiated within this Agreement. A. A proposal to increase a bargaining unit faculty member’s salary shall be initiated by a Xxxx (excluding the Graduate College Xxxx). The Xxxx initiating the proposal must include, along with the proposed increase, a supporting rationale for the proposal and evidence of a bona fide offer, if such offer exists. The proposal will be forwarded to the Xxxxxxx. B. The Xxxxxxx will seek the UPRC’s recommendation regarding retention awards. The UPRC will forward its recommendation to the Xxxxxxx, within ten (10) days of receipt of the proposal. This consultation requirement shall not be applicable to competing offer awards. C. The Xxxxxxx will make the final decision regarding the proposed salary increase. If the Xxxxxxx rejects the proposal, it becomes null and void. The CSU-Administration shall be limited to an available salary increase pool each year not to exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000). The amounts and number of the awards shall be determined by the Xxxxxxx. Copies of all proposals to raise individual bargaining unit faculty members’ salaries and the decisions reached on them shall be sent to the CSU-AAUP in a timely manner. A faculty member who receives such an individual salary adjustment shall be ineligible for a merit raise in the same year and ineligible for another competing offer/retention adjustment during the term of this Agreement. Instructors and Assistant Professors shall not be eligible for these individual salary adjustments. D. At the end of each academic year during this agreement, all unused funds from the retention and matching offer pool will be used for the merit recognition program (See Article 17.4).