Interim Processes for OA Pay Actions
For each affected pay action, HR will first determine whether the position falls into a common or non-common job category. When a pay action is proposed for a common job, additional review is required to ensure that the proposed pay action does not create any Oregon Pay Equity Act concerns (for example, salaries that lie outside the range of current salaries among employees in common jobs).
- Non-Common Jobs: Jobs that are considered singular, non-recurring on campus, based on the work of comparable character standard.
- Common Jobs: Jobs that recur across campus, based on the work of comparable character standard.
A task force made up of academic CFOs and administrative budget managers has now categorized OA jobs into common and non-common categories for short-term use. The ongoing OA OEPA committee will further address pay action process changes. This guidance will be updated as the committee completes their work.
Timelines and Priorities
These changes to existing processes are expected to increase timelines for pay action review. We will do our best to process pay actions as quickly as we can, but there is more analysis now required. Depending on volume, HR will prioritize pay action requests as follows:
- Retention offers where the employee has received a competing offer
- Establishment of hiring ranges for new recruitments
- Requests to issue new hire offers outside of the previously approved hiring range
- Retention offers where there is a credible threat but the employee has not yet received a competing offer
- Expansions of duties
Within the priorities identified above, area VPs or their designates may wish to request expediting of pay actions. If necessary due to volume and current processing timelines, requests to expedite pay actions will be evaluated according to an established matrix
Implemented Process Changes
Other Position and Pay Actions
The summary of position and pay actions provides guidance for the various types of actions taken to change an OA's job assignments or compensation. Please note that where the abbreviation "VP" is used in this section, it refers to Vice President: Summary of OA Position and Pay Actions