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Friday, January 29, 2010
Raises
Question asked by (name pending contributor's permission):
Has anyone heard any facts/rumors about what the possible raise packages will be?
The package numbers were all published (e.g., Newline or links from it) in December. They are numbers consistent with the current labor market.
The Laboratory will not print salary cards in order to use the more efficient Lapis on-line system. I wouldn't be surprised that some directorates end up printing some sort of notification to give the group leader something tangible to hand over.
The rumor is. It's all a big secret now. You'll be interviewed by your supervisor sometime in Feb at which time you can express your dismay, all of which will be noted and sent back to the division office. At that time they'll release your < adequate pay raise and for some a reduction in salary. After Feb 18th you can log into LAPIS and find out what they think of you as an employee. Key note here. Know your base pay / hourly rate for this year and take note if you went + or -. You will never know what your co-worker is making again unless they're willing to tell you. Contact your Ombudsman if you have any issues. Good luck.
The percentages were listed in a Newsline sometime back, you can search around and find it there if back issues are still on line. If not there, it's on the HR site -or Strategic Human Capital or whatever the new age term is these days.
As to why salary cards are not being distributed? I can thing of two reasons:
1. Cost - same reason we're not getting pay stubs. The reasoning here is that every one has access to the web pages at the lab, push some electrons hither and yon and voila, no printing charges.
2. A more nefarious reason is that when you hand out bad news personally you are in close proximity to the person who may not be welcoming that bad news. Early in my career I had an inept supervisor who also was a coward. His method was to hand out the raise cards and then take vacation as soon as the last card was handed out.
If you do notification by proxy through the web, you can take vacation before the bad news comes out. Ain't technology grand?
Of course, all of this and more could be eaten up by TCP1 employee contributions in the not too distant future. Plan on kicking in 2% to 4% of your salary to the pension if you are in TCP1.
So you get 1.5% and they take up to 4%, then they increase your medical cost and state taxes and what do you have. How about one big wopping pay cut not counting what's going to happen to a few who're going to see a (-) pay raise anyway. I've already seen the medical and state tax decrease in pay. I've standing by with the KY so it doesn't hurt to much. I love LLNS....
There are zero plans for TPC1 employee contributions. TPC1 is still well overfunded. I guess you missed GM's discussion on this exact issue at his all-hands.
Last spring, LANS was telling LANL employees that their TCP1 pension was 134% over-funded. This year, they are suddenly telling employees that the pension is $76 million short and it all has to be made up ASAP. This, with the stock market up over 60% from the March '09 lows!
Be very careful putting too much trust in the words of the LLCs.
Looks like they're well on their way to gradually working their way up to the 16% contributions to TCP-1 that was talked about during the transition. Oh my !! could it be another lie they told you. Can't wait I need another pay cut.
That's the problem with blogs. Cowards without a life and without any shame or self-respect can spout whatever they want without any supporting evidence whatsover.
Get your news straight from the reliable sources. NNSA and LLNS official news outlets are where it's at. Don't listen to any of these unofficial blogs.
Great things are happening at the NNSA labs. Join the team and help lead these labs to excellence. You can do it... NNSA and LLNS will be helping you all the way!
Please, give me a break already about how if you chose TCP1 expect employee contributions in the near future. There are NO plans for this now or in the near future. I am guessing the post came from someone who chose TCP2, since that is typically the case.
I hope they take the excess of TCP-1'er are always braging about and use it to bail the state out of debt. I've already written sacramento and pointed them in the right direct.
If the UC retirement system was overfunded, you would have a case there since UC is tied to the state. Not the case with LLNS. It sounds like you may be bitter that TCP1 has not required employee contributions. My guess is that if UCRP were overfunded you would NOT be suggesting they use IT to bail out the state.
21 comments:
For 200s, it is 1.5%.
why aren't salary cards being distributed as in previous years?
The package numbers were all published (e.g., Newline or links from it) in December. They are numbers consistent with the current labor market.
The Laboratory will not print salary cards in order to use the more efficient Lapis on-line system. I wouldn't be surprised that some directorates end up printing some sort of notification to give the group leader something tangible to hand over.
Raises were 12%. 10.5% is skimmed off for the management.
January 29, 2010 7:38 PM
The rumor is. It's all a big secret now. You'll be interviewed by your supervisor sometime in Feb at which time you can express your dismay, all of which will be noted and sent back to the division office. At that time they'll release your < adequate pay raise and for some a reduction in salary. After Feb 18th you can log into LAPIS and find out what they think of you as an employee. Key note here. Know your base pay / hourly rate for this year and take note if you went + or -. You will never know what your co-worker is making again unless they're willing to tell you. Contact your Ombudsman if you have any issues. Good luck.
The percentages were listed in a Newsline sometime back, you can search around and find it there if back issues are still on line. If not there, it's on the HR site -or Strategic Human Capital or whatever the new age term is these days.
As to why salary cards are not being distributed? I can thing of two reasons:
1. Cost - same reason we're not getting pay stubs. The reasoning here is that every one has access to the web pages at the lab, push some electrons hither and yon and voila, no printing charges.
2. A more nefarious reason is that when you hand out bad news personally you are in close proximity to the person who may not be welcoming that bad news. Early in my career I had an inept supervisor who also was a coward. His method was to hand out the raise cards and then take vacation as soon as the last card was handed out.
If you do notification by proxy through the web, you can take vacation before the bad news comes out. Ain't technology grand?
I agree with 7:37 AM. Plan on seeing about 1.5%.
Of course, all of this and more could be eaten up by TCP1 employee contributions in the not too distant future. Plan on kicking in 2% to 4% of your salary to the pension if you are in TCP1.
They will have electronic salary cards that you will be able to get on Lapis, which is actually a good idea.
January 30, 2010 11:08 AM
So you get 1.5% and they take up to 4%, then they increase your medical cost and state taxes and what do you have. How about one big wopping pay cut not counting what's going to happen to a few who're going to see a (-) pay raise anyway. I've already seen the medical and state tax decrease in pay. I've standing by with the KY so it doesn't hurt to much. I love LLNS....
11:08 AM
There are zero plans for TPC1 employee contributions. TPC1 is still well overfunded. I guess you missed GM's discussion on this exact issue at his all-hands.
"TPC1 is still well overfunded. I guess you missed GM's discussion on this exact issue at his all-hands."
January 31, 2010 8:00 AM
You'd be amazed at how quickly this can change. Try not to act overly shocked when salary contributions for TCP1 kick in at some future date.
Last spring, LANS was telling LANL employees that their TCP1 pension was 134% over-funded. This year, they are suddenly telling employees that the pension is $76 million short and it all has to be made up ASAP. This, with the stock market up over 60% from the March '09 lows!
Be very careful putting too much trust in the words of the LLCs.
February 1, 2010 5:57 PM
Looks like they're well on their way to gradually working their way up to the 16% contributions to TCP-1 that was talked about during the transition. Oh my !! could it be another lie they told you. Can't wait I need another pay cut.
That's the problem with blogs. Cowards without a life and without any shame or self-respect can spout whatever they want without any supporting evidence whatsover.
Get your news straight from the reliable sources. NNSA and LLNS official news outlets are where it's at. Don't listen to any of these unofficial blogs.
Great things are happening at the NNSA labs. Join the team and help lead these labs to excellence. You can do it... NNSA and LLNS will be helping you all the way!
Please, give me a break already about how if you chose TCP1 expect employee contributions in the near future. There are NO plans for this now or in the near future. I am guessing the post came from someone who chose TCP2, since that is typically the case.
I see that some of the trolls from "LANL: The Rest of the Story" have migrated over here now that Doug has once again gone to ground.
"Great things are happening at the NNSA labs. Join the team "...
until you get old, then we fire you.
February 4, 2010 7:46 PM
I hope they take the excess of TCP-1'er are always braging about and use it to bail the state out of debt. I've already written sacramento and pointed them in the right direct.
If the UC retirement system was overfunded, you would have a case there since UC is tied to the state. Not the case with LLNS. It sounds like you may be bitter that TCP1 has not required employee contributions. My guess is that if UCRP were overfunded you would NOT be suggesting they use IT to bail out the state.
At least my raise covered half the cost I have to pay for the health insurance increase.
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