By Larry B. Dendy
The Staff Council will not pursue a resolution concerning pay-scale differences and will instead seek ways to help bring about an update of the classification and pay system for state university employees.
The council’s Classification and Pay Committee has been considering a resolution that would offer “constructive solutions” for closing what some council members say is an inequitable gap in percentage wage increases for staff members and some administrators.
However, committee chair Annette Hatton reported at the council’s October meeting that the committee believes the problem lies with a state classification system that is more than 20 years old.
The committee feels the council can accomplish more to help improve staff salaries by focusing on updating the classification and pay system than by adopting a resolution that may be viewed as negative, Hatton said.
Council member Clyde Anglin said the classification and pay system contains more than 600 job classifications. Anglin and Hatton said the board of regents would like to update the system, but the task would be expensive and time consuming.
Hatton said committee members will gather information on the system and will seek to work with the university administration in pushing for a revamp.
In other action, the council adopted a resolution stating that custodial supervisors in campus buildings should be “given the opportunity to have a computer for network communications in order to increase efficiency in the performance of their duties.”
The resolution was in response to a decision by physical plant officials that building supervisors cannot use computers that had been provided by the academic units in some buildings. Employees in the buildings were sending e-mail to supervisors through the computers.
Anglin, who is a physical plant supervisor, said that physical plant doesn’t want its employees using equipment it does not control.
Physical plant has asked that e-mail messages for building supervisors be routed through the custodial foremen for North and South campus. Anglin said if the volume of messages appears to be heavy enough to warrant computers for individual supervisors, physical plant may consider providing them.
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