Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918 [PAGE 407]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS WAGE SCALE AND CLASSIFICATION GROUNDS DEPARTMENT, AND LABORERS

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JANITORS,

These classifications and regulations will become effective as of February I, 1917 for all janitors, janitors' helpers, laborers, and grounds men: Class A. Men in charge of large buildings and assistant foremen. Required to have two years of service and are expected to give their entire time to their buildings. Class B. Men in charge of small buildings and grounds men or chief assistants to men of Class A. One year of service required. Class C. Janitors' helpers, laborers, grounds laborers. Six months' service required. Class D. New men. The rates of pay per hour established for these classes are: Class A, 26-30 cents; Class B, 24-27 cents; Class C, 22-25 cents; Class D, 20-22 cents. Promotion from one class to another will be on a strict merit basis. Length of service will be recognized by an increase at the rate of one cent per hour up to the limit for that class for each five years of service. Promotion from Class D to Class C will be automatic and within one year. Promotion in wages within a class may be made for special efficiency at any time. This will be decided on the basis of 1. Daily reports by the men; 2. Weekly reports by the men; 3. Reports by Chief Janitors; 4. Other reports. Each man's record will be reviewed July 1 and January 1 to determine whether he should be promoted. Buildings of Class A type are Gymnasium and Annex, Engineering Hall, Library, Natural History Building, University Hall, Woman's Build^ g , Chemistry Building, Agricultural Building, Lincoln Hall, Auditorium. To further promote a greater interest in efficient methods for cleaning and caring for buildings the University will each month give a prize of $2.00 for the best suggestion for better methods submitted by men in this division and adopted for use by the University. No restrictions will be placed on the suggestions made. Each man may submit as many as he desires. These must be sent to the Supervising Architect on the last working day of the month, they must be neatly written, signed, sealed and marked "Suggestions for Buildings and Grounds." It is now proposed to make a further advance in the rate of wages paid laborers in the employ of the University. Under this schedule, sixty persons with civil service standing as janitors and laborers are to be paid from 25 to 30 cents an hour for 10 hours a day, giving an average wage of $2.70 per day and $70.20 for a month with 26 working days and $72.90 for a month with 27 working days. This is an average increase of 25.56% above the wage paid a year ago. Fifteen persons with civil service standing as laborers are employed in the care of the grounds and are to be paid from 25 to 30 cents an hour for 10 hours a day, giving an average wage of $2.68 per day, which is an average increase of 28.8% above the wage paid a year ago. After one year's service these employees are given each year one week's vacation on pay and are allowed two weeks' sick leave on half pay in the case of illness which disqualifies them for work. After five years' service an additional six days' vacation with pay is allowed them each year. T p s proposed wage scale will involve an increase of about $20^000 a