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Clerk 11/29/2021
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AN ORDINANCE relating to 2022 wage increases for King County employees including the 2022 4.545 GWI King County Hourly Squared Schedule, 2022 4.545 GWI King County Annual/FLSA-Exempt Squared Schedule, 2022 4.545 GWI King County Standardized Hourly Salary Schedule, 2022 4.545 GWI King County Standardized Annual/FLSA-Exempt Salary Schedule, the annual general wage increase for nonrepresented King County employees, as stipulated in K.C.C. 3.12.130 and K.C.C. 3.12.140, and retention bonuses for nonrepresented King County employees.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Pursuant to K.C.C. 3.12.130, a change to the King County salary schedule must be made by the King County Council.
2. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 health emergency, many employers have been impacted by what is termed "The Great Resignation." That refers to the phenomenon of many employees resigning from their current positions to either seek other employment or to at least temporarily absent themselves from the workforce.
3. An unstable workforce, characterized in part by an inordinate amount of employee departures, can make it difficult to meet workplace demands, especially during an ongoing health emergency.
4. In an effort to forestall critical departures from county employment, it is advisable to enact one-time retention bonuses for nonrepresented King County employees.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The attached 2022 4.545 GWI King County Hourly Squared Schedule, 2022 4.545 GWI King County Annual/FLSA-Exempt Squared Schedule, 2022 4.545 GWI King County Standardized Hourly Salary Schedule and 2022 4.545 GWI King County Standardized Annual/FLSA-Exempt Salary Schedule, are approved and adopted.
SECTION 2. The salary schedules listed in section 1 of this ordinance, reflect a 4.545 percent increase from the preceding 2021 schedules effective January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021, for nonrepresented employees of the King County execu...

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