Scottsbluff DHHS Member Sees Pay Raise After Performance Evaluation Grievance Win

[Omaha Steve]

https://napeafscme.org/2024/10/30/scottsbluff-dhhs-member-sees-pay-raise-after-performance-evaluation-grievance-win/


October 30, 2024

NAPE/AFSCME member Mari Waid, a Social Services Worker in Scottsbluff, recently won her grievance challenging her less-than-satisfactory performance evaluation.

Mari received a score of 2.97 on her 2023 performance evaluation. A grievance was promptly filed on her behalf. NAPE argued that the Department of Health and Human Services violated our labor contract because her 2023 goals were not in SMART goal format, and she did not receive feedback on the areas of her performance that were allegedly lacking.

Additionally, a new personnel management system, Workday, changed the rounding of overall scores from the nearest tenth to the nearest hundredth of a point. Mari’s 2.97 score, which should have rounded to 3.0, was rounded to 2.0, making her satisfactory evaluation an unsatisfactory evaluation. Our union was not made aware of this change prior to its implementation. Because of the new rounding system, Mari was not eligible for the performance based step increase that went into effect on July 1, 2024.

“I reached out to my representative right after I received my score because I felt that something was wrong and knew I had a limited amount of time to challenge my score,” Mari said.

FULL story at link above.