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Committee hears testimony on overtime cap for OPSRP employees and impacts on retirement benefits
Summary
Lawmakers and frontline corrections staff told the Senate Committee on Labor and Business on Feb. 25, 2025, that mandatory overtime and chronic staffing shortages leave many OPSRP (Tier 3) employees accruing hundreds to more than a thousand overtime hours a year while only 300 hours count toward retirement calculations.
Senate Bill 475 drew extended testimony on Feb. 25, 2025 about how overtime hours are calculated for the final average salary of OPSRP (Tier 3) members and whether the current statutory and administrative rules fairly reflect the hours actually worked by public safety and corrections employees.
Sen. James I. Manning Jr. (Senate District 7), one of the bill’s sponsors, said the bill aims to ensure workers who regularly perform hundreds of hours of mandatory overtime receive appropriate credit toward retirement: “When you have a $300 hour cap on Tier 3 and you're working 800 to a thousand hours overtime and not getting…
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