UUA Office of Church Staff Finances
Guided by the values of our faith,
we equip congregations for excellence as employers
and their staff for financial competence and well-being. |
Compensation and Staffing News |
Editor's Note
Dear Readers,
Please keep us apprised of changes to your staff and lay leader information. For staff, this includes salary and hours changes, new home addresses, terminations, and retirements. Keep these links handy!
Faithfully, |
Jan Gartner, Compensation and Staffing Practices Manager |
Guide to Setting Terms of Employment for Non-Clergy
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA) collaborate to provide a model employment agreement for ministers. We've had many requests from staff and lay leaders over the years to create a similar document for other staff. But because of legal distinctions between ministers and other employees, as well as a variety of differences from state to state, our legal counsel advised against us providing a parallel template for non-clergy. Yet we recognized the importance of improved support for all hires.
So, last fall, we introduced a resource to help ensure a solid foundation for any new employee. It's not an employment agreement template, but we like it even better. Because it came out in the same month as our revised Congregational Salary Program, it does not appear to have gotten the attention it deserves. This seems like a good time to lift it up as summer is often a time when new staff are hired and onboarded. The Guide contains the following sections:
- Confirm the Basics
- Administrative Onboarding
- General Benefits Onboarding Information (and see Addendum)
- Personnel Policies
- Professional Development
- Additional Considerations: warm welcome, intellectual property, letter of hire
- Special situations: remote employees, staff shared with other congregations
- Addendum: UUA Benefits Onboarding
Please check it out (link at button below), make use of it when hiring, and send us feedback! |
Compensation Consultants
UUA Compensation Consultants are trained volunteers who work under the direction of the Office of Church Staff Finances. They assist congregational leaders in understanding UUA Compensation Standards and in navigating the complexity of ministerial and staff compensation, benefits, and employment agreements.
Compensation Consultants are regionally based and generally cover an assigned geographic area within their region. Sometimes they work across coverage areas, and even across regions, to help each other out and to fill gaps. Consultations generally take place via teleconference.
Please make use of your Compensation Consultant for questions related to staff compensation. Note that congregational staff with concerns about their own compensation should contact the Compensation Team directly at Comp@uua.org. |
Encourage New Leaders and Staff to Subscribe!
In the editor's note at the top of this newsletter, we've provided convenient links for letting us know about changes in your staffing and lay leadership.
Who among your new (and not-so-new) leaders and staff would benefit from this newsletter? In general, we recommend it for board members, along with lay leaders who have personnel, finance, and/or supervisory responsibilities. On the staff side, we certainly would like all to supervisors to subscribe. Many other congregational staff also appreciate Compensation and Staffing News as a way to learn about the resources of our office and to better understand their compensation and benefits.
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