Recruitment & Retention Incentive Program

Revision/Review Date Board Approval Date Effective Date

Policy

PIC may, as funding allows and need requires, offer a signing bonus for employees who accept full-time, direct service positions.  The bonus will be paid in a manner that assures continued employment to the greatest extent possible.

Practice

  1. The Executive Director, with approval of the board, may award a signing bonus as an incentive to the applicant for difficult to hire positions.
  1. The employee must agree to remain with the agency for a full year at full time status.
  1. If the applicant leaves the agency in less than one full year, the entire bonus will be repaid to the agency as per the agreement signed by the employee at the beginning of their employment.
  1. The signing bonus can be paid to the employee in a bulk payment or in installments and will be determined by mutual agreement between the agency and the employee.