Sometimes, one local may represent titles in different bargaining units. Each bargaining unit is covered by a Unit Contract. Compare to layoff.īargaining Unit – Groups of titles designated by the Office of Collective Bargaining to have a common negotiating interest. The city uses attrition rates, among other things, to make future hiring and staffing plans and to predict future costs of collective bargaining agreements. Assignment differential amounts are listed in your Unit Contract.Īttrition – The reduction of the workforce by natural causes, such as retirement, voluntary resignation and death.

Employees lose their assignment differentials when they stop performing the duties or if they change job titles. Assignment differentials do not become part of an employee’s base salary. Employees receive the assignment differential only while they are performing the specified duties. Assignment differentials must be negotiated in Unit Contract bargaining. Not all titles offer assignment differentials. Call the DC 37 Annuity Fund at 21 for more information.Īssignment Differential – A payment over and above the base rate of pay, based on performing specific or unique tasks. DC 37 first negotiated an annuity fund in the 1995-2000 Economic Agreement. You receive your annuity after you leave city service. These accounts are managed by a union annuity fund, where the monies are pooled and invested. These are negotiated during Economic Contract bargaining.Īdvancement Increase – The guaranteed minimum increase when promoted from one title to another title within an occupational group.Īnnuity Fund – An investment fund for most titles into which the employer contributes a specific amount of money per employee per workday. Across-the-Board, or General, Wage Increase – A negotiated wage increase that covers all the members of a bargaining unit, regardless of classification.Īdditional Compensation Fund (ACF) – A negotiated amount of money, over and above the general wage increase, to be distributed among titles according to Unit Contract negotiations.Īdditions-to-Gross – Payments in addition to base salary including: advancement/promotion and level increases assignment, certification, educational, license, experience, longevity and night shift/evening differentials recurring increment payments (RIP) service increments and transportation, uniform, uniform maintenance and equipment allowances.

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