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Caucus debates cuts to employee pay increases and legislators’ compensation amid tight forecast
Summary
Senators proposed several amendments to delay or reduce scheduled pay and benefit increases for state employees and to cut proposed increases or per diem for legislators, framing the actions as leading by example during fiscal restraint.
Senator Lundin offered a suite of amendments aimed at the state compensation package for the current fiscal cycle: eliminating the 3% salary increase (amendment 58), shifting all insurance cost increases to employees (amendment 59), reducing the salary increase to 1.5% (amendment 60), and splitting insurance increases 50/50 (amendment 61). Lundin framed the set as proportional responses to a…
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