UC employees to receive raises after four-year freeze
Nearly all University of California employees will be eligible for raises this year after UC leaders on Wednesday lifted a pay freeze that lasted almost four years. In a letter to UC employees, President Mark Yudof said all but the newest and highest-paid employees would be eligible. Union members already were entitled to raises under their contracts, but nonunion workers have not received bumps since October 2007. Faculty members, who previously were eligible for merit bumps only once every four years, will all receive performance reviews in the coming year. Any professor receiving a positive review will get a 3-percent raise. The university set aside $140 million in this year’s budget for the raises, a UC spokeswoman said.
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by Matt Krupnick, The Contra Costa Times.