On April 14, 2009, an arbitrator ruled that “The Public Defender Salary Schedule shall be modified to provide an additional 1% increase for Public Defenders at Step 3 or above effective June 1, 2008…”<\/p>\n
In the last contract negotiations, AFSCME proposed an additional step and a 2% increase for all assistant public defenders at Step 3 and above in addition to negotiated wage increases.\u00a0 The County flatly rejected the proposed additional step, but made a counter proposal offering a 1% increase.\u00a0 In response, the Union dropped it’s request for another step and proposed a 1.5% increase.\u00a0 The 1% counter proposal was never retracted during the negotiations.\u00a0 On June 1, 2008, the County started paying the additional 1%.\u00a0 But a few weeks later, the County claimed that the parties had never agreed to the 1% increase and reduced paychecks accordingly.<\/p>\n
The Negotiation Ground Rules state that “All Tentative Agreements will be reduced to writing, initialed and dated by the Spokesperson of each Party.”\u00a0 No tentative agreement prepared by either party referenced mutual assent to the 1% increase.\u00a0 For this reason, the County argued that the additional 1% proposal inadvertently “fell of the table” without mutual agreement.\u00a0 However, Tentative Agreements were formalized and jointly signed off during the negotiation process only<\/em><\/strong>when there were structural changes in a pay plan.\u00a0 Other contractual changes were adopted without a sign off\u00a0 The 1% increase is not a structural change in the plan such as adding a new step to the pay grid.\u00a0 Further, the\u00a01% appeared in the salary schedule prepared by\u00a0the County during negotiations.\u00a0 Both parties reviewed the salary schedule and made corrections, but the 1% increase was never changed.\u00a0 Thus the parties reached a binding, mutual agreement and the 1% increase is a part of the contract.<\/p>\n M.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On April 14, 2009, an arbitrator ruled that “The Public Defender Salary Schedule shall be modified to provide an additional 1% increase for Public Defenders at Step 3 or above effective June 1, 2008…” In the last contract negotiations, AFSCME proposed an additional step and a 2% increase for all assistant public defenders at Step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}