State of California

  M E M O R A N D U M

  REFERENCE CODE:
  98-052

  DATE:
  October 13, 1998

  TO:
  Personnel Officers
  Employee Relations Officers

  FROM:
  Department of Personnel Administration
  Classification and Compensation Division

  SUBJECT:
  Career Executive Assignment Red Circle Salary Rates

  CONTACT:
  Joe Broderick, Assistant Program Manager
  (916) 324-9397, CALNET 454-9397
  FAX:  (916) 327-1886
  OFFICE VISION:  DPA(JABRODER)
  INTERNET:  JOEBRODERICK@DPA.CA.GOV


  The Department of Personnel Administration's (DPA) policy 
  regarding red circle salary rates for Career Executive 
  Assignments (CEA) has made a distinction between CEAs who 
  have been at the level from which terminated for one year 
  or more and those who have been at the level from which 
  terminated for less than one year.
  
  The wording of this policy was changed when DPA established 
  the new CEA band as one class with a grid of flat rates 
  from "level" to "salary rate" from which termination 
  occurs.  Several departments have pointed out inequities 
  that will occur from application of this policy.  For 
  example, it would preclude the inclusion of the 3 percent 
  salary increase that is retroactive to July 1, 1998, in the 
  determination of red circle rates for any CEAs terminated 
  prior to June 30, 1999.
  
  DPA, therefore, is rescinding this policy and red circle 
  salary rates for all CEAs should be determined by using the 
  salary rates received at time of termination less 5 percent 
  regardless of how long the CEAs have served at these 
  termination salary rates.
  
  On Page 440.2 of the DPA Classification and Pay Guide, 
  strike out Subsection 2.3 and write next to it, "Authorized 
  by PML 98-052."  The next revision to the guide will 
  include this revision.
   
  Please contact the DPA Personnel Management Technician assigned to 
  your department, if you have questions about this memorandum or other 
  CEA red circle rate issues.
  
  
  
  
  Mike Vargas
  Program Manager