Has anyone seen an official announcement from OPM on this year’s COLA? I hear its going to be 0.3% but I need the announcement showing the proration amounts.
thanks
From: Extension Service Personnel Officers in the Southern Region [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Campbell, Susan
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 10:37 AM
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Subject: Re: FLSA Update
The University of Kentucky is moving ahead with all planned changes, including salary increases for post docs and certain other staff members, plus converting about 400 (University-wide) exempt employees to non-exempt.
Approximately 50 of those 400 employees are in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Susan
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On Behalf Of Morgan,Mary A
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 9:17 AM
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Subject: Re: FLSA Update
UF will proceed with increasing the salary of 1.00 FTE post docs to $47,476. However, we will wait on part-time post docs (which would have either been increased to 1.00 FTE at $47,476 or eliminated) and are
waiting on making current exempt staff below $47,476 eligible for OT. Some supervisors had already given pay increases to staff they wanted to remain exempt. We will let those increases stand.
Mary Anne Morgan, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Director, IFAS Human Resources
2044 McCarty Hall
PO Box 110281
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone – 352-392-4777
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On Behalf Of Chris Mcclendon
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 6:17 PM
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Subject: FW: FLSA Update
Good evening,
Sharing information from Auburn University on the recent preliminary injunction on the FLSA noting that we had implemented changes effective November 1.
CMM
Chris McClendon
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
ACES Business Office
105 Duncan Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849
Office: (334) 844-5531
Cell: (334)740-9743
From: University HR
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2016 4:53 PM
Subject: FLSA Update
To: AU Employees
From: Human Resources
RE: FLSA Update
Date: December 2, 2016
On Tuesday, November 22, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against the Final Rule of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which was issued in May. The FLSA rule, which increases the Minimum Salary
Level threshold required for a job to remain “exempt” from the FLSA overtime and time recording requirements, had required implementation no later than December 1, 2016. The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that it will appeal the injunction, and it
may be several months or even longer before there is a final resolution regarding the FLSA rule.
For now, Auburn University will take steps toward reconverting the jobs of full-time and part-time employees who were impacted when the University implemented the FLSA rule change. Effective January 1, 2017,
their jobs will be reconverted from nonexempt to exempt. Please note that:
• Impacted employees (those whose jobs were recently re-designated) are still required to report their hours in Kronos until December 31, 2016, as their jobs will remain nonexempt until January 1, 2017;
• Impacted employees will also remain eligible for overtime premium until December 31, 2016;
• Additional information will be made available in the coming days; and,
• Auburn University will continue to monitor legal developments and will communicate any future changes or additional information as warranted.
Graduate student employees classified as graduate assistants (GAs) will not be reconverted to exempt status. Based upon definitions of all graduate student employee positions, GAs do not qualify to be exempt
regardless of the Minimum Salary Level threshold. Graduate teaching and graduate research assistants (GTAs and GRAs) were not converted and will remain exempt under current regulations.
Please contact the following Human Resources team members if you have additional questions:
• Rod Kelly, Senior Director, Talent Management, 4-1618,
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• Patrick Johnston, HR Communications Specialist III, 4-1604,
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Auburn University Human Resources
1550 East Glenn Avenue
Auburn, AL 36849
(334) 844-4145
