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Today's Poll!State salaries committee leaning toward more detailed study
Thursday, December 1, 2011
After several years of a detailed study, Kansas officials are implementing a new, statewide pay plan for state employees.
And several members of Missouri’s special, Joint Interim Committee on State Employee Wages said it makes sense for the Show-Me State to follow in Kansas’ footsteps.
“They started similar to what we did, with a small committee that was just going to review a few pay things, a kind of get-in, get-out type of thing,” freshman Sen. Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, told colleagues, while reporting on a recent telephone conversation he and committee chairman Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City, had with Kansas’ Commerce Secretary, Pat George.
As a state representative, George chaired Kansas’ Employee Compensation Oversight Committee.
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tonto_goldberg 1 year, 6 months ago
Perhaps we could blame this expanded study plan on wishful thinking, or maybe we could blame it on an inability to do the one really hard thing it would take to get things on the way to improvement. There will have to be some money - taxpayers' money - invested to start improving the state employee salary mess in a time when too many legislators have taken a "no new revenue" pledge that's much stricter than the old "no new taxes" pledge.
In addition to Missouri state employee pay achieving a permanent dead last place among the fifty states, there are technical problems with the pay scale system. There is wage compression, limiting the pay scale increase for more education, skil, and experience. There are lots of issues where work responsibilities have been pushed down to lower paid staff - that has only been possible because state employees take jobs that are ranked and paid lower than their qualifications. There are equity issues where employees with fewer skills and less difficult working conditions are paid more than employees with more education and experience, and harsher working conditions; and equity issues where employees with similar skills and respoonsibilities are paid more by one agency than another.
JCsleeper 1 year, 6 months ago
Translation: More lip service.
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