Los Angeles Municipal Code Ch. 9 Compensation Plan for Department of Water and

POWER

(Title added by Ord. No. 150,957, Eff. 6-13-78, Oper. 4-17-78.)

Section 4.900.1 Adoption of the Compensation Plan for Department of Water and Power. 4.900.2 Implementation of Compensation Plan for Department of Water and Power Employees. 4.901 Step Placement upon Initial Appointment. 4.902 Salary Step Placement on Assignment to a Different Position in City Service. 4.903 Salary Step Adjustment. 4.903.1 Salary Step Placement for Non-represented Exempt Positions. 4.904 Return from Layoff or Separation from City Service. 4.908 Overtime Compensation.

(a) Initial appointment to any position shall be at the lowest step in the salary range for the position.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) above, the General Manager may authorize the appointment of a person to a step above the lowest step in the salary range where the General Manager finds that:

(1) The Department or System is unable to recruit sufficient persons who have the needed experience, abilities or training for the

position, or who are willing to work nonstandard hours or who are willing to work in certain locations, or

(2) The person to be appointed has experience and skills that exceed those of other candidates available for the position and such experience and skills are required, and

(3) The advanced step hiring is applied to a limited number of difficult-to-fill positions in the Department.

(c) Persons who are employees of other jurisdictions or entities whose functions are consolidated into the City and who enter City service by action of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners pursuant to the provisions of Charter Section 1021 shall be credited with their length of service in the position held at the time of the consolidation for salary step placement and salary step advancement purposes.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-4-77. Amended by: Ord. No. 152,231, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; 3rd and 5th paragraphs, Ord. No. 152,544, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; Title and Section, Ord. No. 155,181, Eff. 5-4-81; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 172,760, Eff. 8-18-99, Oper. 8-18-99; Ord. No. 173,308, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.

(a) Whenever an employee is assigned or appointed from a position to another position, the following step placement procedures shall apply:

(1) If the top step rate of the salary range for the new position is higher than the top step rate of the salary range for the former
position, the employee shall be placed on the lowest step within the salary range for the new position which provides at least a five (5)
percent increase over the rate received in the former position including any regularly assigned bonus or premium compensation
amounts in either the former position or in the new position.

(2) If the top step rate of the salary range for the new position is the same as the top step rate of the salary range for the former
position the employee shall retain the salary step from the former position.

(3) If the top step rate of the salary range for the new position is lower than the top step rate of the salary range for the former
position, the employee shall receive the lower of:

a. The top step rate of the salary range for the new position, or

b. The step rate in the salary range for the new position which is the same as the employee’s step rate in the prior class; if
no step rate in the range is the same, the net higher level rate in the new salary range shall apply until the employee’s next
anniversary date.

(4) In no case shall an employee receive a salary that is lower than the lowest step rate of the salary range for the new position, or
higher than the top step rate, including regularly assigned bonus amounts, of the salary range for the new position.

(5) When an employee returns to a higher level position the employee shall be restored to the former step and step anniversary date.

(b) Salary Rate Comparisons.

(1) All salary rate comparisons shall be made in the hourly or bi-weekly amounts for the step rates in the salary range.

(2) Flat rate salary amounts shall be considered to be the top step of the salary range for the position.

(3) Any regularly assigned bonus or premium amounts shall be included in the top step rates of the salary ranges before the top step

rates of the former and new positions are compared.

(4) In determining the step placement for an employee assigned or appointed to a position in the Department of Water and Power

from a position in any other City department, salary rate comparisons shall be made using the employee’s actual salary in accordance with applicable provisions of this section. The availability of higher pay levels for the employee’s classification shall not be considered in the salary step determination.

(c) Concurrent Step Advancement and Position Change. Employees who would be entitled to receive a step advancement on the same date as they are appointed or assigned to a new position on a different salary range shall be deemed to have received the step advancement prior to the appointment or assignment to the new position.

(d) Bonus/Premium Compensation Assignment. Assignment to or from a position with a regularly assigned bonus or premium rate

within the same class and pay grade does not change the employee’s step placement or step advancement anniversary date.

(e) Change in Classification by the Civil Service Commission. Whenever a position is reclassified and an employee is found “legally employed” or “not illegally employed” by action of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners, such employee shall retain the salary step and anniversary date from the former classification.

(f) Retroactive Salary Ordinances. Step adjustments will be recomputed, if necessary, pursuant to the provisions of any retroactive salary ordinance.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-4-77. Amended by: 1st and 3rd unnumbered paragraphs, Ord. No. 152,544, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; Title and Section, Ord. No. 155,181, Eff. 5-4-81; Subsec. (a)(1) and (d), adds (a)(5), Ord. No. 157,221, Eff. 11-3-82; Subsec. (f) added, Ord. No. 159,659, Eff. 2-15-85.

(a) When an employee returns to a position in a classification in accordance with Charter Section 1015, the employee shall be placed on the same step in the salary range for the position that was occupied prior to the layoff; and the anniversary date for such employee shall be the date of completion of an aggregate of one year of service at that salary step. If any other section of this Code provides a higher salary rate than is provided by this section, that other section of the Code shall govern the employee’s step placement.

(b) When a former employee is reinstated after a separation from service to serve on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, the employee shall be placed on the step in the salary range for the new position as though no separation from City service had occurred and the employee shall retain the employee’s former anniversary date.

(c) If any employee returns to City service within three years of the date of separation from city service, the appointing authority may authorize a placement of the employee on the top step in the salary range for the position in accordance with this section as though the employee had not been separated from city service, but no step advancement credit will be given for the time of separation. In such cases, the employee’s step advancement anniversary date shall be date of completion of the aggregate number of months required for step advancement at the time of separation from city service.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-14-77. Amended by: Title and Section, Ord. No. 155,181, Eff. 5-4-81; Ord. No. 173,308, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.

Except as otherwise expressly provided by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners and approved by the City Council, or otherwise provided for by ordinance implementing an approved Memorandum of Understanding, employees in classes and levels listed in Schedule “B” shall be compensated for authorized overtime as follows:

(1) Employees in classes for which the maximum salary is equal to or less than the maximum salary rate for the class Cashier,

Water and Power, Code 9669, shall be paid at the rate of one and one half-hours for each hour worked. Overtime worked on Sundays, holidays or their equivalents shall be paid at the double time rate in addition to the regular compensation for the holiday. Each hour worked after sixteen continuous hours on duty have been worked shall be at the double time rate.

(2) Employees on salary ranges for which the maximum rate is above that for the class Cashier Water and Power, Code 9669, and

equal to or less than the maximum rate for the class Secretary Water and Power Commission, Code 9739, shall receive compensation at the rate of one and one-half hours for each overtime hour worked. Employees may request compensation in cash or time off subject to approval of the General Manager.

(3) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (b) below, employees on salary ranges above the range for the class of Secretary Water

and Power Commission, Code 9739, shall receive compensation at the rate of one hour for each overtime hour worked. Employees may request compensation in cash or time off subject to approval of the General Manager, and restrictions adopted by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners in Board Resolution 89-321, adopted June 22, 1989, or as subsequently amended.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (a) above, the pay fixed for employees on salary ranges at or above the

range for the class of Executive Assistant to General Manager DWP I, Code 0360, shall be deemed to provide full

compensation for all hours worked.

(4) The General Manager shall establish limits on the maximum amount of overtime off that can be accumulated in Paragraphs (2)

and (3) above.

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any other ordinance to the contrary, whenever an employee in a class listed in

Schedule B is required to remain on duty or on the Department of Water and Power’s premises, in order to maintain Department operations during a work stoppage by other employees, the employee shall be considered to be on duty during all such hours and shall be paid or allowed to accumulate time-off at the rate of time-and-one-half as directed by the General Manager. If this section or any other ordinance provides greater overtime compensation, the employee may be compensated under those provisions.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 150,778, Eff. 4-17-78, Oper. 7-4-77. Amended by: Ord. No. 152,544, Eff. 4-23-79, Oper. 7-1-78; Para. 5 added by Ord. No. 154,342, Eff. 6-30-80, Oper. 6-30-80; Ord. No. 165,871 Eff. 5-23-90; Para. (3), Ord. No. 170,063, Eff. 10-17-94.