Hrm 531 Week 2 Reaction Paper

Additionally, JCC stated that "Ms. Pivoda's salary history since hire as a Senior Court Services Analyst mirrors Ms. Thao's salary history.” If you retrieve the detail salary history on Ms. Pivoda, you will find that this statement is FALSE and very MISLEADING. The “Salary History Since Hire” report did not reflect her “monthly salary” upon the her favorably promotion to Sr. CSA position. Contrary to the email confirming Ms. Pivoda starting salary (See Exhibit D email from hiring manager Fred Salimi to HR recruiter), she received 5% above the minimum starting salary of $5983 per month. Again, I wanted to emphasis that Ms. Pivoda did not meet the minimum qualification for the job and shouldn’t have a 5% above the minimum starting salary especially when her salary at the time of promotion was probably 5% less than the
Salami to HR recruiter on November 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Exhibit D, eluded that HR is to “prepare the offers at the starting rate” for both positions. I’m not sure how Ms. Pivoda is able to negotiate an additional 5% when I was “flatly” denied when I asked Ms. Pellegrini if I could negotiate my starting salary. The reason provided to me at time of the denial was that AOC does not allow for any starting salary negotiation. Unbeknownst to me that only “favored” individual would benefit and able to negotiate.

Adding insult to injury, in the classification study performed by Fox & Lawson, Ms. Pivoda was originally classified as a Business System Analyst and not a Senior Business System Analyst. However due to the influence of management, for unknown reasons or avoidance, she was reclassified back to Senior Business System Analyst before the final classification was sent out to the staff. At one time, the organization chart for COE, reflected this lower classification as well; however, I didn’t save a copy knowing that HR already notified her with her current classification of Senior Business System