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House passes bill to let frontline state workers share savings and direct portion to workplace priorities
Summary
The Minnesota House on Feb. 26 approved House File 289, creating a program that lets state frontline workers share in identified savings and direct part of those funds to workplace priorities; the bill includes a sunset provision adopted as an amendment.
House File 289, a proposal to route part of identified state agency savings back to frontline workers and to create worker-led spending committees, passed the Minnesota House on Feb. 26 after debate and a friendly amendment inserting a sunset provision.
Representative Paul Quam, the bill author, said the measure aims to give ‘‘frontline workers…a greater voice’’ and provide an incentive by returning a portion of savings to accounts they would help allocate. ‘‘This bill is meant to listen to our frontline workers that are helping our citizens, give them that voice, allow them to find savings and efficiencies, and then allow them part of that money to get…
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