Private and Public Sector

COMPENSATION, NEGOTIATIONS AND EXECUTIVE RECRUITMENT

Cabot Dow Associates team members have been Human Resources Directors, Executive Recruitors, Labor Negotiators, Compensation Analysts and HR Policy Advisors.  CDA consulting has dealt with all of the personnel issues and sub-specialties facing organizations in human resource management and alternative dispute resolution.  CDA specializes in compensation studies as well as collective bargaining under state and federal laws, e.g. Ch. 41.56 RCW, Washington State Collective Bargaining Law, overseen by the Public Employment Relations Commission, and National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB):

  • Market compensation assessment in support of organization needs
  • Negotiated many collective bargaining agreements
  • Represented public employers in mediation
  • Presented interest arbitration cases for cities, fire districts and counties (police officers, firefighters, corrections officers)
  • Presented cases before the Washington State Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Specific CDA experience in compensation, labor relations and executive recruitment includes HR specialties:

  • application of FLSA
  • design of compensation plans
  • job description/classification systems
  • negotiating medical plan redesign
  • compensation package costing
  • talent acquisition
  • workload analysis based on best practices
  • mediation and interest arbitration
  • negotiating and designing performance appraisal systems
  • resolving grievances and the negotiation of initial first time labor contracts.

Public and Private Sector Applications

While the majority of the CDA consulting practice is now in the public sector:  cities, counties, fire districts, library districts, health districts, port districts, transit districts, water districts, and sewer districts.  CDA also has recent and extensive experience in the private sector:   Construction, Project Management, Recruitment and Selection.  Sample industries include silicon smelter, dairy, oil refineries, and third party administration of health and pension plans for management and labor unions.