HomeMy WebLinkAbout206 - Salary CITY OF REDDING, CALIFORNIA
COUNCIL POLICY
SUBJECT RESOLUTION NUMBER POLICY
NUMBER EFFECTIVE
DATE PAGE
SALARY POLICY 89-321 206 09/19/89 1
BACKGROUND
The City of Redding has not had a compensation philosophy to
govern the administration of salaries and employee benefits .
PURPOSE
This policy will establish the City Council ' s posture on this
important subject and will provide the framework for the City
Council in arriving at a salary and benefit program which is
equitable to taxpayers , employees , and the public .
POLICY
The City of Redding will establish and maintain a compensation
policy which is intended to recruit and retain the better quali-
fied employees. In order to establish salaries and benefits
necessary to attract and retain such employees , the City shall
conduct periodic surveys of public and private sector employment
. in order to ensure that its compensation practices conform to the
practices of a cross-section of public and private employers in
the labor market from which the City recruits its work force .
The Council recognizes that there are different labor markets for
different occupational groups , and its survey practices shall
reflect those labor market differences , and the compensation
judgements made on the salary data collected shall also reflect
those geographic differences . For occupational groups that are
peculiar to the public sector , such as police and fire , or for
professional , technical or managerial occupational groups or jobs
with qualifications not found in ready supply in the local
Redding market , the City shall conduct surveys of total compensa-
tion in California cities with economic and service delivery
conditions comparable to Redding ' s . For those occupational
groups which are found in ample supply in the Redding area , total
compensation surveys of public and private employers in that
market place shall be conducted . These surveys will serve as the
basis for insuring that the City ' s compensation practices are in
keeping with the practices of public and private employers in the
labor markets in which the City competes for its work force and
will serve as the foundation for the collective bargaining pro-
cesses in which the City participates.
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