New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle C - Division of the Budget › Part 151 - System Of Performance Evaluation And Advances For Employees In The Professional, Scientific And Technical Services Negotiating Unit › Section 151.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
For the purpose of this Part, certain terms are defined as
				  follows:
(a) Hiring rate. The minimum
				salary stated in the appropriate salary schedule for each of the salary grades
				applicable to employees covered by this Part.
(b) Job rate. The maximum salary stated in
				the appropriate salary schedule for each of the salary grades applicable to
				employees covered by this Part.
(c)
				Salary range. The dollar difference between the hiring rate and the job rate of
				a salary grade on the appropriate salary schedule.
(d) Performance advance. An increase in the
				basic annual salary rate for an employee who is below the job rate of the
				salary grade on the appropriate salary schedule, based on an assessment of the
				employee's performance as provided for in this Part.
(e) Performance rating. One of three terms
				used to describe an employee's performance. These terms are outstanding,
				effective and below minimum.
(f)
				Evaluator. The immediate supervisor of the employee to be rated. This
				individual is directly responsible for evaluating the performance of an
				employee.
(g) Reviewer. The member
				of management (i.e., an employee who has been designated as managerial pursuant
				to article 14 of the Civil Service Law) to whom the evaluator reports or who is
				immediately responsible for the functions which are under the evaluator's
				supervision.
(h) Performance
				program. The specific tasks, assignments, activities or objectives to be
				accomplished by an employee during the period of evaluation, the standards by
				which the employee's performance will be evaluated, the training and
				development activities to be accomplished by the employee during the period of
				evaluation, and the standards by which the employee's progress in those
				developmental activities will be determined.
(i) Evaluation report. A written evaluation
				of an employee's performance, including a narrative which relates the
				employee's performance to the performance standards specified in the
				performance program, a rating of the employee's performance to the performance
				standards specified in the performance program, a rating of the employee's
				performance as effective, outstanding or below minimum, and recommendations
				concerning personnel actions, performance advances, training and development
				activities, and other actions deemed appropriate by the evaluator based on the
				employee's performance.
(j)
				Variable rate payment system. A system which permits variable dollar
				performance advances based on the eligible employee's performance rating.
				Employees whose performance is rated effective shall receive no less than 12.5
				nor more than 20 percent of the salary range of their grade on the appropriate
				salary schedule as a performance advance. Employees whose performance is rated
				outstanding shall receive no less than 25 percent nor more than 40 percent of
				the salary range of their grade on the appropriate salary schedule as a
				performance advance. In no case may a performance advance result in a basic
				annual salary above the job rate for the position which was used to calculate
				the salary adjustment made.
(k)
				Equated to a grade. Positions equated to a grade as shown on the certificate of
				approval for the position, a Budget Director's approval form signed by the
				Director of the Budget or his designee, or the appropriate classification form
				(CC-4) signed by the Director of the Budget or his designee.