Public employment: salary ranges.

Existing law establishes the Department of Personnel Administration for purposes of managing the nonmerit aspects of the state's personnel system. Existing law also requires the Department of Personnel Administration to establish and adjust salary ranges for each class of position in the state civil service, subject to specified merit limits and except as specified. Existing law requires the salary range to be based on the principle that like salaries shall be paid for comparable duties and responsibilities. The 2011 Governor's Reorganization Plan for state human resources functions abolishes the Department of Personnel Administration, and transfers the functions and duties performed by the Department of Personnel Administration to the Department of Human Resources. This bill would require the Department of Human Resources to address salary compaction and parity concerns. The bill would also require, when it is determined that revenues do not allow the department to implement a salary determination to increase any excluded and exempt employee salaries in a given year, the department to provide to the Legislature existing data on the salary determination, including all salary compaction and parity determinations for supervisory and managerial employees.