Academic Wage Agreements
It is critically important that the approximate number of work hours per week/month listed on a salaried wage agreement accurately represent the actual number of hours that will be worked. These work hour projections are carried forward in "job" set up as the number of work hours when we pay the employee, thereby driving the following work hour based compliance programs:
1) Sick leave accrual under PSU policy and Oregon law
2) Compliance and eligibility tracking under the Federal Affordable Care Act
3) Initial and annual retirement program eligibility under Oregon statute, and monthly work hour reporting to PERS
Salary wage agreements will largely become a thing of the past under new Federal overtime regulations. PSU must be fully compliant with these new regulations by December 1st. The new regulations specify that all non-instructional employees paid less than $913 per week are eligible for overtime (hourly). To ensure compliance by December 1st, effective immediately, wage agreements offering less than $913 per week should be offered as hourly. Wage agreements for non-credit instruction, and for an employee to perform "overtime exempt duties" at a rate higher than $913 per week, will be allowed as salaried.
