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A MOTION requesting the county executive to transmit a plan to implement a countywide employee performance management system that includes annual employee evaluations.
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WHEREAS, on November 3, 1992, voters approved the merger of King County and the municipality of metropolitan Seattle (Metro) to be effective January 1, 1994. This merger created a need to integrate two work forces and this integration is known as the classification and compensation project and includes both represented and non-represented employees within the executive branch, and
WHEREAS, on December 13, 1993, the metropolitan King County council passed Motion 9182, which adopted the philosophy, guidelines and objectives for the classification and compensation project plan. The plan stated that an employee performance measurement system with clear performance objectives and regular feedback systems will be established and that this system will allow the county to reward employee high performance and create mechanisms for employee corrective action, and
WHEREAS, on June 28, 1997, the metropolitan King County council passed Motion 10262, which provided policy direction to the county executive that a new employee performance measurement evaluation and merit pay system for county employees, including the effort to develop performance measures for the county, will be initiated following the completion of the classification and compensation study, and
WHEREAS, on October 4, 2004, the metropolitan King County council passed Motion 12024, which adopted a countywide human resources policy to align all county human resource practices and procedures to ensure that business needs are met through legally defensible human resource practices, and
WHEREAS, in 2005, the classification and compensation project for the executive branch of county government was completed, and
WHEREAS, in 2006, the labor, operations and technology committee, in fulfilling its role as the labor implementatio...

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