Chapter 3 – Personnel, Training, and Employee Relations

31130.4.3 Requirements

• The Bilingual Pay Program provides a monthly pay differential for State employees who use bilingual skills on a continuing basis averaging ten percent of the time. The ten percent includes the actual time spent conversing or interpreting in a second language and related activities performed with the specific bilingual transaction. To receive the pay differential, an individual must first successfully complete a bilingual fluency examination to become certified bilingual.

• Upon successful certification, employees with their supervisor’s concurrence shall submit a Bilingual Pay Authorization, STDStandard Form (DGS) Form 897, justifying ten percent use of their bilingual skills in their position, and proof of successfully passing a bilingual examination in a specific language.