Common use of Withholding Step Advancements Clause in Contracts

Withholding Step Advancements. Department Directors or their designees shall keep their employees informed about their job performance, giving good work its proper recognition and deficient work guidance and assistance toward improvement. An employee’s supervisor or manager shall notify the employee in writing at least sixty (60) days prior to the employee’s time-in-step eligibility for a merit step advancement that the employee has thus far not earned the increase based on some or all of the factors listed in Section 8.04, Attaining Advancement. The notice shall objectively identify the employee’s deficiencies and further identify the specific improvement(s) that the employee must achieve to earn a merit step increase. The supervisor or manager shall provide a copy of this sixty (60) day notice to the Human Resources Director. The notice shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file along with any written response from the employee. The notice is not subject to appeal. The employee shall receive the merit step increase if the supervisor or manager does not provide the written notice to the employee at least sixty