TPL Information and Questionnaire
*Note: TPL refers to the Technical Pay Law Program which was created by the state "to attract and retain qualified information technology professionals in a highly competitive labor market." TPL employees are primarily software engineers, network managers, database analysts, and database specialists.
NAGE has begun a process of negotiating underlying position titles, grades, and salaries for all TPL employees. While this will not affect the current salary and functional title of the majority of TPL employees, it will provide a salary floor below which each TPL employee could not be paid. This salary floor will be established by attempting to reconstruct what grade and step each TPL employee would be at, if instead of being TPL, they were paid as if they held regular union positions.
Even if your TPL salary is currently higher than what your salary would have been in a union position, it is important that we accurately establish a base salary for your TPL position. The reason for this is that, in the event you were denied adequate TPL increases in the future, it is entirely conceivable that the salary of your underlying union position (including future pay and step raises) could catch up with and even exceed your TPL salary. In that case, you would be entitled to the higher of the two rates of pay.
The union has received a proposal from the Commonwealth establishing an underlying title, grade, and step for each TPL employee. That document, the "TPL Update" can be opened by clicking the link below. We are asking all TPL employees to open the TPL Update, find their name and corresponding information, and then complete the TPL Questionnaire, telling us whether you agree with the title, grade, and step proposed by management. You can open the TPL Questionnaire by clicking the link below.
IMPORTANT! Before you begin completing the questionnaire, please open the "TPL Update" by clicking the link below. All questions on the questionnaire refer to numbered columns on this "Update."