Bill Text: HI SCR141 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Educational Officers; Classification and Compensation Plan; Study

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-12 - (H) Referred to EDN/LAB, LMG, FIN, referral sheet 67 [SCR141 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR141-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	141
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting a study of systems or plans that may accommodate the Department of Education's need to retain, promote, and competitively compensate professional employees in CERTAIN areas without requiring those employees to assume supervisory responsibilities.

 

 

     WHEREAS, in efforts to streamline operations, the Department of Education would like to utilize its most valued resource, human resources, more efficiently and effectively; and

 

     WHEREAS, academic professionals under the Department of Education fall under either the Teacher (Bargaining Unit 05) or Educational Officer (Bargaining Unit 06) classifications and are represented for the purposes of collective bargaining by the Hawaii State Teachers Association and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, respectively; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Educational Officers' Classification Plan was developed by a former Department of Human Resources Development (previously known as the Department of Personnel Services) Classification and Compensation Branch Chief in 1989 and updated in 1993; and

 

     WHEREAS, although the Department of Education's Educational Officers Classification Plan does not include class specifications according to the Department of Education, in practice Educational Officer positions are classified based on the number of employees an Educational Officer supervises (for example, an individual in an EO 2 position usually does not supervise any employee, an individual in an EO 3 position is similar to a Section Head under the civil service classification system, and an individual in an EO4 position is similar to a Branch Chief under the civil service classification system, each with progressively higher supervisory responsibilities); and

 

     WHEREAS, the Department of Education would like to retain, promote, and competitively compensate skilled and productive professional employees who excel in their respective fields, without requiring them to assume supervisory responsibilities; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Legislative Reference Bureau is requested to assess the classification and compensation plans of public, local, and national K‑12 and higher education organizations and institutions and recommend systems or plans that may accommodate the Department of Education's need to retain, promote, and competitively compensate professional employees in areas that require special skills without requiring those employees to assume supervisory responsibilities; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the report include but not be limited to:

 

     (1)  Various types of classification and compensation plans in K‑12 and higher education organizations and institutions that may allow for competitive salaries for high-skilled professional or managerial positions that may not necessarily require supervisory responsibilities;

 

     (2)  The collective bargaining issues surrounding the possible establishment of a classification and compensation system in the Department of Education similar to the executive/managerial system at the University of Hawaii;

 

     (3)  Consideration of expanding Educational Officer studies previously conducted by the Department of Human Resources Development (formerly known as the Department of Personnel Services) to develop clear and concise class specifications for the Educational Officer classes that allow for positions to be classified into higher Educational Officer levels without requiring assumption of supervisory responsibilities; and

 

     (4)  The advantages and disadvantages of a system, similar to the University of Hawaii executive/management system, that allows for negotiations of initial salaries within established ranges, allowances for salaries outside of established ranges with proper approval, and salary adjustments based on performance evaluations rather than on across-the-board adjustments; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Reference Bureau submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including proposed legislation, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2011; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Superintendent of Education, the Director of Human Resources Development, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Educational Officers; Classification and Compensation Plan; Study