City Council Agenda and Packet 2017 03 14 SP

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SUBJECT: DISCUSSION/DIRECTION — LIVABLE WAGE OVERVIEW AND OPTIONS DATE: MARCH 14, 2017 PAGE 6 OF 12 o As part of the 2018 budget process o Other ideas? • Provide time for supervisors to gain feedback from their employees to review and present the same information. • Gather details about issues that arose from these discussions and try to work through issues such as compression and unfairness issues to address them in the beginning of the process. • Circle back with supervisors and employees to share solutions for issues brought forward. • Meet with ALL City employees to present information regarding new pay philosophy and livable wage standard for the City. Transparency with pay is one of the tenants of best practices for compensation in an organization. (See Terminology section to review "Levels of Transparency" for compensation). • Determine time frame for implementation based on feedback from supervisors and budgetary considerations. Option 2: Bring City of Louisville Full Time Employees and Benefitted Part -Time Employees (30 - 40 hours per week) up at least the $15.67 hourly wage. Pros: • This option has minimal impacts on the City as there are currently only five (5) employees who are full time or benefitted part-time employees and are making less than $15.67 per hour. Four of those employees are in the Golf Enterprise Fund and one employee is in the General Fund. • This option would have minimal compression issues as the remaining 180 Full Time or Benefitted Part -Time employees are above the $15.67 per hour livable wage standard. Cons: • This option may not address the desire to have more part-time/variable (29 hours or below) employees at a livable wage. • May not address concerns regarding benefit eligibility for those 29 hours or less. • Increasing wages in the Golf Course Enterprise fund without adjusting expectations regarding sustainability would have additional impacts to the budget. • Unfairness or equity issues could arise as five golf course enterprise employees with benefits would be making about $5 - $6 more per hour than the golf course part-time/variable hour employees or seasonal golf course employees. Most of the City's seasonal golf employees are making between $10 — 12 per hour. Policy considerations: • Should the Livable Wage standard not be applied to the Golf Course Enterprise Fund due to budgetary concerns? CITY COUNCIL COMMUNICATION