This report provides the results of 2014 survey of excluded employees about the ‘temporary’ wage freeze enacted in 2012. With the continued extension of the temporary wage freeze for excluded employees into 2014, in February the BCEEA decided to revisit its earlier research on compensation changes and examine more closely how the wages of BCGEU employees, excluded employees and public services executives (ADMs and DMs) had changed over the past five years.
On March 27, 2014, the Head of the BC Public Service announced that excluded management employees would receive a 3% wage increase, observing that “this does not catch up the wage increases of excluded managers to those provided to bargaining unit employees, this increase is applied in recognition of the past five years of no increases.”
Our examination of compensation changes over the past five to ten years and our survey suggest that there are other significant issues which are not addressed by the across-the-board salary increase. We therefore decided to release our study and renew the calls we have made for partnership with the public service in addressing the outstanding issues.
Read the full report here: Below the Line