Drafter
Clerk 07/21/2011
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AN ORDINANCE relating to establishing a pilot program to retain accountable business transformation program staff necessary for program completion.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The accountable business transformation ("ABT") program is currently within its program budget and on track to deploy the financial, payroll/time and labor, and budget projects in early 2012.
2. As noted in the ABT program annual report for 2011 recently transmitted to council, which is 2011-RPT0126, ABT is primarily staffed with term-limited temporary employees whose assignments and thus employment are scheduled to end March 31, 2012, coinciding with the end of the ninety-day stabilization period for Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft payroll time and labor. The ABT program manager and human resources division director have collaborated on methods to retain critical staff on the program, knowing that the program cannot afford to lose these staff and stay on track for ABT implementation in early January 2012. The county's current employment tools are limited and the ABT program has maximized their use, with the risks of losing staff increase as the Program's Go Live date approaches.
3. The Federal Workforce Flexibility Act of 2004, Public Law 108-411, October 30, 2004, allows federal agencies to pay recruitment, relocation and retention incentives to employees in occupations critical to agency missions, including health care, engineering, security and information technology. Beginning in 2006, the United States Office of Personnel Management has reported to Congress on federal agencies' use of incentives payments, and noted that agencies consistently reported using the retention pay incentive to accomplish strategic human resources goals and found it to be cost-effective in retaining key staff. Rules set forth implementing 5 U.S.C. 5754 authorizes payment of retention incentives to a current employee when an agency determines that the unusually high or...

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