Bill Text: HI SCR141 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
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-Amended.html
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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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, AND A STUDY OF THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S ADOPTION OF A SYSTEM SIMILAR TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S EXECUTIVE/MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
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, Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, required the Board of Education to adopt two separate classification/compensation plans for educational officers, one for principals and vice principals and the other for all other educational officers; and
WHEREAS, in May 2009, the Board of Education approved a report, contracted by the Department of Education, by Watson Wyatt, entitled "Review of the Current Classification and Compensation System of Educational Officers and Professional Employees and Recommendations," which reviewed practices in seventeen of the twenty-five largest educational districts in the United States and identified a compensation philosophy based on benchmark job classes in relevant labor markets, incentive programs, and performance based compensation and made recommendations; 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 examine and assess various types of classification and compensation plans of selected public education organizations and recommend systems or plans that may allow for competitive salaries for executive officers, other than principals and vice principals, that are in highly-skilled professional or managerial positions that may not necessarily require supervisory responsibilities; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in examining and assessing the various types of classification and compensation plans, the Legislative Reference Bureau is requested to review the Watson Wyatt study, entitled "Review of the Current Classification and Compensation Systems of Educational Officers and Professional Employees and Recommendations"; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Reference Bureau is also requested to report on the Board of Education's progress in adopting separate classification/compensation plans for principals and vice principals and other educational officers, as mandated by Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the University of Hawaii is requested to report on the University's 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 report by the University of Hawaii is requested to address the advantages and disadvantages of the executive/managerial system and the collective bargaining issues that were involved in the establishment of the executive/managerial system at the University of Hawaii; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Reference Bureau and the University of Hawaii are each requested to submit their respective reports of findings and recommendations 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 President of the University of Hawaii, the Chairperson of the Board of Education, the Superintendent of Education, the Director of Human Resources Development, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.
Educational Officers; Classification and Compensation Plan; Study
