December 21, 2010. A message to FAU Bargaining Unit members on what went wrong
As you know, the raise negotiated by the UFF Bargaining Team did not appear in the first 8 paychecks, representing 7.8 biweekly pay periods. Since most of us are paid our annual salary in 19.5 pay periods, we were missing (7.8/19.5) of our contractual raise money. Unfortunately, the person instructing the computer entered 26.1 as the number of pay periods, which is the way employees such as administrators are paid. Thus, the retroactive payment was (7.8/26.1) of the raise. This is, by mathematics that our entering Freshmen should be able to handle, (19.5/26.1) of what it should have been. Presumably, we shall get the remaining (6.6/26.1) of the money next week.
Other errors have been made in individual cases so please carefully check your 12/17 and 12/31 pay stubs against figures on your contract and Notice of Salary Increase. We shall try to keep you informed.