Compensation and Benefits 2.7

With respect to employment, compensation, and benefits to non-unionized employees, the Superintendent shall not cause or allow jeopardy to financial integrity or to public image.

Further, without limiting the scope of the foregoing by this enumeration, the Superintendent shall not:

1) Fail to hire and retain the most qualified employees the Montpelier community can afford,

2) Fail to make compensation and benefits commitments that are consistent with Montpelier's community standards of reasonableness,

3) Set compensation and benefits that significantly vary from average salaries and benefits for comparable positions in the region,

4) Make compensation and benefits commitments to non-unionized employees that are reasonably perceived as inequitable when compared with other categories of staff,

5) Make compensation and benefits commitments to one or more non-unionized employee that are reasonably perceived as inequitable when compared with other non-unionized employees,

6) Fail to link compensation to the quality of the non-unionized employee's performance, and

7) Propose contacts that deprive the district of the flexibility to remove non-unionized employees for cause, or are of such duration that the district is unduly restricted in its ability to terminate the employment of a poorly performing employee.

Date Warned: June 8, 2007

Date Adopted: July 1, 2007