Directive on the Administration of Leadership Development Programs - Management Trainee Program and Career Assignment Program

Appendix C - Transition

1 Effective Date

1.1 This appendix takes effect April 2, 2006. It will be rescinded once the following participants have exited their respective programs:

• MTP participants appointed to the program on or before April 1, 2006;
• MTP candidates who started language training on or before April 1, 2006; and
• CAP participants appointed to the program on or before April 1, 2006.

1.2 All current participants in the programs will be subject to a conversion to the new PL group. This applies to members of the CA and MM occupational groups who are converted to the Leadership Programs (PL) group on April 2, 2006.

2 Management Trainee Program

2.1 Participants are entitled to four years in the program. For those who choose four years of participation, their program will end after 48 months worth of assignment time. Participants are then appointed or deployed out of the PL group.

2.2 Participants with holding rates will continue to receive these rates until the PL rates exceed the holding rate. These participants receive the pay rate revisions of the PL group.

2.3 Participants at the PL-03 level who meet the graduation requirements will be eligible to use a PL-03 nominal maximum when deploying out of the program. This nominal maximum is equal to the ES-04 maximum. Participants' actual PL-03 rate of pay, however, is to be used when determining the rate of pay for the new position.

3 Career Assignment Program

3.1 Participants are entitled to four years on the program. For those who choose four years of participation, their program will end after 48 months worth of assignment time. Participants are then appointed or deployed out of the PL group.

3.2 Participants appointed to the program under the Special Assignment Pay Plan (SAPP) will continue to be subject to the SAPP until promotion to the next PL level.

3.3 Participants will be exempt from the language requirements in Appendix B, section 6 with regard to promotion eligibility.

3.4 Participants with Career Assignment (CA) Group salary rates that are higher than the corresponding PL job rates will be salary protected at their CA rates. These rates will be adjusted annually along with the PL rates. Performance pay rates for PL-05 and PL-06 participants are based on the rating scale from the previous salary administration plan.

3.4.1 The ratings from the previous salary administration plan are as follows:

3.4.2 Participants appointed out of the PL group to positions with lower job rates than their PL rates will be entitled to up to two years of salary protection.

3.5 A $3,200 graduation award will be provided to CAP participants who graduate before April 1, 2007. Graduation requirements are listed in Appendix B, section 7. The award is provided at the time of the participant's departure from the PL group. The graduate may choose to receive this award as a lump sum payment or as a salary increase. A lump sum payment will not be included as salary for the purposes of pension calculation or calculation of salary on appointment to a subsequent occupational group. A participant may choose a salary increase up to the PL-06 job rate. Any excess will be paid as a lump sum.