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Heated debate over employee pay: JFAC splits on CEC proposal vs. market/merit approach; motions later withdrawn
Summary
A prolonged debate over how to raise state employee pay ended Thursday with sponsors withdrawing competing compensation motions to allow staff to rework language and numbers.
A lengthy and sometimes heated debate over change-in-employee-compensation proposals occupied a large portion of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee meeting on Thursday. Committee members disputed whether to use a flat-dollar approach intended to help lower-paid state employees, or a merit- and market-based approach designed to target pay for hard-to-recruit classifications.
Representative Furness, who moved the CEC committee recommendation, said the plan would give a $1.55-per-hour increase to permanent state employees, include an 8% boost for Idaho State Police trooper pay, and provide specified market or merit adjustments for nursing and IT/engineering positions. Furness read the motion on the…
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