11.20 Recruitment and Retention - Avenal, Ironwood, Calipatria, Chuckawalla Valley, Centinela, High Desert, California Correctional Center, and Pelican Bay State Prisons (Excludes Units 17 and 21)

  1. Employees who are employed at Avenal, Ironwood, Calipatria, Chuckawalla Valley, Centinela, High Desert, California Correctional Center, or Pelican Bay State Prisons, for twelve (12) consecutive qualifying pay periods, shall be eligible for a recruitment and retention bonus of two thousand six hundred dollars ($2,600), payable thirty (30) days following the completion of every twelve (12) consecutive qualifying pay periods.
  2. If an employee voluntarily terminates, transfers, or is discharged prior to completing twelve (12) consecutive pay periods at Avenal, Ironwood, Calipatria, Chuckawalla Valley, Centinela, High Desert, California Correctional Center, or Pelican Bay State Prisons, there will be no pro rata payment for those months at either facility.
  3. If the department mandatorily transfers an employee, the employee shall be eligible for a pro rata share for those months served.
  4. If an employee promotes to a different facility or department other than Avenal, Ironwood, Calipatria, Chuckawalla Valley, Centinela, High Desert, California Correctional Center, or Pelican Bay State Prisons prior to completion of the twelve (12) consecutive qualifying pay periods, there shall be no pro rata of this recruitment and retention bonus. After completing the twelve (12) consecutive qualifying pay periods, an employee who promotes within the department will be entitled to a pro rata share of the existing retention bonus.
  5. Part-time and intermittent employees shall receive a pro rata share of the annual recruitment and retention differential based on the total number of hours worked excluding overtime during the twelve

    6. (12) consecutive qualifying pay periods.

  6. Annual recruitment and retention payments shall not be considered as compensation for purposes of retirement contributions.
  7. Employees on IDL shall continue to receive this stipend.
  8. If an employee is granted a leave of absence, the employee will not accrue time towards the twelve

    9. (12) qualifying pay periods, but the employee shall not be required to start the calculation of the twelve (12) qualifying pay periods all over. For example, if an employee has worked four (4) months at a qualifying institution and then takes six (6) months maternity leave the employee will have only eight

    (8) additional qualifying pay periods before receiving the initial payment of two thousand six hundred dollars ($2,600).

  9. It is understood by the Union that the decision to implement or not implement annual recruitment and retention payments or to withdraw authorization for such payments, and the amount of such payments rests solely with the State and that decision is not grievable or arbitrable.