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Lawmakers and workers press for change to PERS overtime cap calculations for mandatory-overtime jobs
Summary
House Bill 3363 would clarify how the 300-hour overtime cap for tier 3 PERS members is calculated and require the Department of Administrative Services to use actual overtime averages by class and geography; corrections, mental health and crisis workers described sustained mandatory overtime, safety concerns and staffing gaps
House Committee on Labor and Workplace Standards members heard extensive testimony Feb. 17 on House Bill 3363, a proposal to clarify how the overtime cap that applies to tier 3 PERS members is calculated and to require recalculation when actual overtime averages materially exceed the statutory cap.
Sponsor Representative Courtney Nieron described the bill as a "course correction" for tier 3 public employees who now often see only 300 overtime hours counted toward their final PERS calculation even though some workers routinely accrue far more. "That doesn't mean that they are capped at working more than 300 hours. It simply means they can only claim 300 hours on retirement paperwork," she told the committee.
The bill retains the existing statutory concept that the Department of Administrative Services may establish different overtime averages by class…
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