This is something we are going to grow into. Employees who are due for evaluations in the fiscal year that ends June 30 will continue to be judged under the current system. But Griffin said employees should not necessarily expect to get the same raises next year. It does make the system more challenging. Fairfax County's problems are not unlike those faced by other local governments that have attempted to link pay to performance, according to Marc Holzer, a Rutgers University professor and president of the American Society for Public Administration.
People tend to want to take care of their employees.
The county's police officers and firefighters are excluded. What we don't want to see is that . . . The bottom line is, you are going to punish the hardworking employees. Robert J. O'Neill Jr. O'Neill had argued that the county's biggest problem was a pay system that gave workers raises no matter how well they did their jobs. Under the new system, all workers are evaluated by their supervisors using a complex set of criteria, including performance and behavior standards.