PMedMoe said:
I wasn't complaining about what I'm paid, I was complaining about wording in a CANFORGEN!
Personally, I think I get paid quite well for what I do.
Exactly. Which is why there are earlier CANFORGENs as precedent:
EFFECTIVE 1 APR 04
(1) AN ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT OF 2.25 PERCENT AND
(2) AN ADJUSTMENT OF 4.25 PERCENT TO RESTORE COMPARABILITY WITH THE PUBLIC SERVICE (PS)
(3) EXAMPLES OF AMT OF BACK PAY BEFORE DEDUCTIONS. CPL STD IPC4 WILL RECEIVE BACK PAY OF APPROX 3120 DOLLARS WHEREAS CWO IPC4 WILL RECEIVE APPROX 4824 DOLLARS
An economic adjustment is COLA.
A comparabilty adjustment is a different thing.
That was the 2004 CANFORGEN, then in 2006 -- we had this thread [
Pay Raise for FY 2006] where the wording was:
CANFORGEN 155/06 CMP 067 241633Z OCT 06
FY 05/06 AND 06/07 CF PAY INCREASES
UNCLASSIFIED
It again differentiates between "economic adjustment" (COLA) and "adjustment to the special military differential" (benchmark to Public Svc employees) if applicable to the rank.
That all brings us to FY07/08 (ie the raises/adjustments for the FY ending 31 Mar 2008): CANFORGEN 102/07 (which I can not find copied into a thread on-site/and I do NOT have DIN access right now either, so can not pull up to post) ... I am quite sure, specificly noted that bit about the PS still bargaining and that raises to align with their pay would
not occur until all tables had negotiated Table settlements. That has still not occured to date.
That adjustment (for Military factor benchmark) based upon the PS negotiations & tables has usually been listed seperately (as shown above) in CANFORGENs.
Then
CANFORGEN 175/07 Nov 07 was released noting only the "economic adjustment". It mentions nothing of the Military Factor Adjustment that was mentionned in Jun 07 regarding FY07/08 pay with CANFORGEN 102/07 (the one that we would receive when all tables had settled and it's amount for us determined).
Perhaps they've lumped it all into one "adjustment" terminology this time around and that 2% is all we'll see -- but I'll choose to ever be the optomist. There's still tables out there negotiating from last year ... but I certainly won't be spending what may never come. :-\
They really DO need to sort out their terminolgy and begin utilizing a common standard of wording with these releases. COLA(djustment) does not equal "raise" in line with PS counterparts and mil factor. If, by some chance, the 175/07 CANFORGEN has included both of these items -- I'll agree with you, it's worded very wrong based on precedent Pay CANFORGENs from previous years which kept them seperately listed; especially so given the fact that another FY07/08 Pay CANFORGEN (102/07) made specific note of waiting for all tables to settle (still not done) before releasing that mil factor amount.
So, the question really is: is that 2% inclusive of both the COLA
and the mil factor from those PS table settlements which had occured prior to the latest message release despite the prior direction that
all tables would have to settle prior to releasing the mil factor? Or not?
The confused wording of CANFORGEN 175/07 doesn't make it clear. And, the prior precedents of listing the COLA & Mil Factor seperately would tend to lead one to think something is still coming once ALL those tables have settled as was stated as what would occur in earlier CANFORGEN 102/07.