University of California, Santa Barbara
PA-9: Employee Compensation

Background on Collective Bargaining at UC The Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act The Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA) is the state law that authorizes and regulates collective bargaining between the University of California and the labor organizations that represent UC employees. The complete text of the law is available on the web at http://www.perb.ca.gov/laws/HEERA.aspx. The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) administers HEERA. PERB conducts representation elections and investigates and makes decisions regarding Unfair Labor Practice charges filed by employees, labor organizations and the University. The law protects employees from reprisals, discrimination, coercion or interference with their exercise of HEERA rights, including the right to form, join and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations and for the purpose of meeting and conferring over those matters. Employees also have the right to refuse to join employee organizations or to participate in the activities of these organizations. Employees cannot, however, refuse to pay an agency fee (fair share) in lieu of paying membership dues. Employees who are managerial or confidential within the meaning of HEERA, and some student employees, are excluded from the law's coverage. Supervisory employees have some rights to union representation under HEERA; however, the law prohibits collective bargaining of supervisors' terms and conditions of employment. History of Collective Bargaining at UC Under HEERA, a bargaining unit is a group of titles with a sufficient "community of interest" (e.g. similar working environment, occupational category, level of education) that a union can reasonably represent the employees in the unit - particularly the negotiation of the employees' terms and conditions of employment. After the enactment of HEERA in 1979, PERB made a number of determinations about appropriate units at the University of California and conducted representation elections. There are fourteen collective bargaining units (CBU) on the UC Santa Barbara campus*. The current contract for each bargaining unit is available on UCnet (link is external). A list of campus bargaining units is available on the Unions at UCSB web page(http://www.hr.ucsb.edu/labor-relations/unions-ucsb). HEERA prohibits the University from negotiating directly with represented employees ("direct dealing") or consulting with any academic, professional or staff advisory group on any matter within the scope of representation. The Negotiation Process HEERA requires that in negotiating contracts the parties engage in good faith negotiations to try to resolve their differences and to attempt to achieve a signed contract. In the event the parties cannot reach agreement, HEERA provides intervention through an impasse procedure. This procedure includes mediation and fact-finding. If mediation fails, the mediator can elevate the issues to fact-finding. In the fact-finding process, the parties present their respective positions on the unresolved issues that are designated by law as mandatory subjects of bargaining to a three-member fact-finding panel. The panel issues recommendations for resolving the differences between the parties. At the conclusion of fact-finding, if the parties cannot reach agreement using the fact-finder's recommendations the recommendations become available to the public.

The University of California is recognized world-wide for excellence in education and research, and for the excellence of its medical enterprise. To support and foster this excellence, the University will manage each element of total compensation as follows: •Align our total compensation with leading academic research institutions (public and private) as well as national, regional and local organizations with whom the University competes for talent; •Align our jobs to the market based on their assigned responsibilities taking into account job scope, accountabilities and value to the University; •Build funding of total compensation programs into the annual budget process in order to provide for competitive pay and total compensation package alignment; •Reinforce a high-performance culture so as to attract, develop, motivate and retain the talent needed; Compensate individuals for their relative levels of contribution to the success of the University •Provide cash incentive opportunities, where appropriate and aligned with market prevalent practices, with actual payouts tightly linked to results and accountabilities; •Establish consistent linkage of system-wide programs, systems and processes while accommodating, where appropriate, a level of flexibility in administration to allow campuses to operate and compete with relative autonomy within their respective markets. For more information, please see: http://www.ucop.edu/hrconf/2011/presentations/job-families-market-analysis.pdf

At UC Santa Barbara, most payroll titles are assigned either a grade or a step scale. Graded titles have a minimum and a maximum rate and employees can be paid anywhere within the range. Titles with a step scale (ie. step 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc.) have a succession of steps, beginning with step 1.0 and ending with a negotiated maximum step (differs between titles). Generally speaking, positions in the Professional and Support Staff (PSS) program and the Managers and Senior Professionals (MSP) program are assigned a salary grade, and positions assigned to a Collective Bargaining Unit are on a step scale. Positions that are assigned a grade must be paid a salary within the minimum and maximum of the salary range, and positions that are on a step scale, must be paid on one of the negotiated steps. In addition, full--time employees also receive: Medical Insurance (a package of their choice) Dental Insurance - UC pays the entire cost of monthly dental premiums for staff and their family members. Vision - UC pays the entire cost of monthly vision premiums for staff and their family members. UC Santa Barbara is governed by Federal Law but chooses to use the more generous California State Wage Minimum as it's minimum wage in order to remain competitive as an employer. Our Student Assistant positions begin at the state minimum wage of $8.00/hr*. Federal Minimum Wage = $7.25/hour California State Minimum Wage = $8.00/hour* UCSB Minimum Wage for Student Assistants = $8.00/hour* *Please note: California minimum wage will be increasing to $9.00/hr effective 7-1-14. It will increase again to $10.00/hr effective 1-1-16.

UC Santa Barbara is governed by Federal Law but chooses to use the more generous California State Wage Minimum as it's minimum wage in order to remain competitive as an employer. Our Student Assistant positions begin at the state minimum wage of $8.00/hr*. Federal Minimum Wage = $7.25/hour California State Minimum Wage = $8.00/hour* UCSB Minimum Wage for Student Assistants = $8.00/hour* *Please note: California minimum wage will be increasing to $9.00/hr effective 7-1-14. It will increase again to $10.00/hr effective 1-1-16.

UC Santa Barbara is governed by Federal Law but chooses to use the more generous California State Wage Minimum as it's minimum wage in order to remain competitive as an employer. Our Student Assistant positions begin at the state minimum wage of $8.00/hr*. Federal Minimum Wage = $7.25/hour California State Minimum Wage = $8.00/hour* UCSB Minimum Wage for Student Assistants = $8.00/hour* *Please note: California minimum wage will be increasing to $9.00/hr effective 7-1-14. It will increase again to $10.00/hr effective 1-1-16.

UC Santa Barbara is governed by Federal Law but chooses to use the more generous California State Wage Minimum as it's minimum wage in order to remain competitive as an employer. Our Student Assistant positions begin at the state minimum wage of $8.00/hr*. Federal Minimum Wage = $7.25/hour California State Minimum Wage = $8.00/hour* UCSB Minimum Wage for Student Assistants = $8.00/hour* *Please note: California minimum wage will be increasing to $9.00/hr effective 7-1-14. It will increase again to $10.00/hr effective 1-1-16.

UC Santa Barbara is governed by Federal Law but chooses to use the more generous California State Wage Minimum as it's minimum wage in order to remain competitive as an employer. Our Student Assistant positions begin at the state minimum wage of $8.00/hr*. Federal Minimum Wage = $7.25/hour California State Minimum Wage = $8.00/hour* UCSB Minimum Wage for Student Assistants = $8.00/hour* *Please note: California minimum wage will be increasing to $9.00/hr effective 7-1-14. It will increase again to $10.00/hr effective 1-1-16.

Please note the total employees listed about does not include faculty/academic employees.