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Employees who work in a clerical-secretarial or clerical- management non-exempt position who pass all parts of the Certified Professional Secretary Examination shall be granted a nine percent (9%) increase in salary. Exempt employees are not eligible for the increase.
32.2 Salary Increase
The salary increase shall become effective with the next pay period beginning after the employee's passing grades on all parts of the examination are certified by the Institute for Certifying Secretaries. The certification date is located in the upper left-hand corner of the Candidate Performance Report generated by the Professional Secretaries Institute (PSI). (It is not the date that the test is administered nor the date that the report from PSI is received.) It is the employee's responsibility to provide the appropriate verification to the Human Resource Services Office.
32.3 Use of Annual Leave
The time off required to take the CPS examination shall be charged to annual leave or to leave without pay if the employee has no annual leave.
32.4 The guidelines apply to employees who pass all parts of the CPS exam after the effective date of the TBR guideline which is July 1, 1991.