Article 4.5. Management Compensation Incentives of California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 2.6. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 4.5.
It is the purpose of this article to provide for
management compensation incentives to promote increased productivity
and efficiency in the management of state services, and to enable the
state to attract and retain highly qualified managerial employees by
providing management compensation incentives similar to those
commonly provided in public employment and private industry.
The Department of Human Resources, subject to any
condition that it may establish, subject to existing statutes
governing health benefits and group term life insurance offered
through the Public Employees' Retirement System, and subject to all
other applicable provisions of state law, may enter into contracts
for the purchase of employee benefits with respect to managerial and
confidential employees as defined by subdivisions (e) and (f) of
Section 3513, and employees excluded from the definition of state
employee in subdivision (c) of Section 3513, and officers or
employees of the executive branch of government who are not members
of the civil service, and supervisory employees as defined in
subdivision (g) of Section 3513. Benefits shall include, but not be
limited to, group life insurance, group disability insurance,
long-term disability insurance, group automobile liability and
physical damage insurance, and homeowners' and renters' insurance.
The department may self-insure the long-term disability insurance
program if it is cost effective to do so.
(a) The state may contribute all, part, or none of the
cost of benefits purchased pursuant to this article. The remainder of
the costs, if any, shall be paid by employee contributions.
(b) No contract for employee benefits which requires full or
partial funding by the state shall be entered into pursuant to this
article until funding is appropriated by the Legislature.
(c) The Legislature shall make necessary adjustments in the annual
Budget Act to increase or decrease the state's contribution towards
the cost of employee benefits purchased pursuant to this article.
Notwithstanding Sections 19839, 19858.1, 19858.3,
19858.4, 19859, and 19859.3, the Department of Human Resources may
provide for vacation, sick leave, annual leave, and bereavement leave
benefits, including the lump-sum payment of any amount of
accumulated leave, with respect to each state officer and employee
who either is excluded from the definition of state employee in
subdivision (c) of Section 3513, or is a nonelected officer or
employee of the executive branch of government who is not a member of
the civil service.
Effective July 1, 1987, there is hereby established in
the State Treasury the Nonrepresented State Employee Long-Term
Disability Insurance Fund for the purpose of funding nonrepresented
state employee long-term disability insurance benefits. Premiums
derived from contributions by the employer or employee shall be
credited to the fund. Income of whatever nature, earned on the
Nonrepresented State Employee Long-Term Disability Insurance Fund
during any fiscal year, shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in this
fund are continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal year,
notwithstanding Section 13340. The fund shall be used by the
Department of Human Resources to pay long-term disability claims and
administrative costs.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 22846, the state employer
shall, upon the death of an employee while in state service, continue
to pay employer contributions for health, dental, and vision
benefits for a period not to exceed 120 days beginning in the month
of the employee's death. The surviving spouse or other eligible
family member shall be advised of all rights and obligations during
this period regarding the continuation of health and dental benefits
as an annuitant by the Public Employees' Retirement System. The
surviving spouse or other eligible family member shall also be
notified by the department during this period regarding COBRA rights
for the continuation of vision benefits.
(b) This section shall apply to state employees in state
bargaining units that have agreed to this section in a memorandum of
understanding, state employees excluded from the definition of "state
employee" in subdivision (c) of Section 3513, and officers or
employees of the executive branch of state government who are not
members of the civil service.
Notwithstanding Section 18000, the Department of Human
Resources may provide by rule for the accumulation and use of paid
leave, including a lump-sum payment for accumulated leave, with
respect to nonelected members of state boards and commissions whose
annual salaries are fixed by law. Any rules adopted pursuant to this
section shall provide for the reduction of the salary fixed by law of
those nonelected members of state boards and commissions when their
absences exceed their paid leave. The Department of Human Resources
shall not provide paid leave benefits greater than the maximum
benefits provided the employees designated as managerial by the
Department of Human Resources. Rules adopted pursuant to this section
shall take effect after July 1, 1991.
Supervisors of state employees represented by State
Bargaining Unit 5, 6, or 8 shall receive salary and benefits changes
that are at least generally equivalent to the salary and benefits
granted to employees they supervise. For purposes of this section,
"salary" means base pay and shall not be construed to include such
forms of compensation as overtime. The benefit package shall be the
economic equivalent, but the benefits need not be identical. The
determination of the specific benefits that supervisors of state
employees represented by State Bargaining Unit 5, 6, or 8 shall
receive shall be made through a meet and confer process as defined in
Section 3533.
The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(a) If the state is to attract and retain a competent correction
workforce, there is a compelling need to adequately compensate state
peace officer/firefighter members who are supervisors.
(b) A supervisory compensation differential is necessary to
compensate state peace officer/firefighter members who are
supervisors within the departments and boards of the Youth and Adult
Correctional Agency or who are correctional supervisors within the
State Department of State Hospitals for the greater responsibility of
accomplishing correctional work through the direction of others.
(c) For purposes of measuring the compensation differential
referred to in subdivision (b), the value of salaries and other
economic benefits shall be considered in calculating comparative
rates.