Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 599.690 - Trade Rate(a) For each class for which the salary range is designated by the Department as trade rate, the Department shall determine and promulgate, as often as conditions require, a trade rate range that meets the conditions below. (1) The minimum salary limit shall be the prevailing rate paid in each locality for the type of work in question.(2) There shall be one intermediate step which shall be either 5 cents an hour or 40 cents a day higher than the minimum salary limit.(3) The maximum salary limit shall be 10 cents an hour or 80 cents a day above the minimum salary limit.(b) In establishing a trade rate range, the Department shall confer with and take into account the findings of state, county, municipal, and other official public bodies engaged in determining the prevailing rate in connection with the awarding of contracts for public works and shall consider such other sources of pertinent information as may be available.(c) Whenever the trade rate range for a class is revised, the salary of each incumbent in a position to which the revised range applies shall be adjusted to the step in the revised range that corresponds to the step received in the previous range; and such salary adjustment shall not affect the date of eligibility for a merit salary adjustment.(d) The salary that an employee shall receive upon appointment to a trade rate apprenticeship class shall conform to the wage rate provisions found to be prevailing for the apprenticeship.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 2, § 599.690
1. Change without regulatory effect amending section and NOTE filed 10-13-2014 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2014, No. 42). Note: Authority cited: Sections 18502, 19815.4(d) and 19830, Government Code. Reference: Section 19830, Government Code.
1. Change without regulatory effect amending section and Note filed 10-13-2014 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2014, No. 42).