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City employees urge council to apply comp-study pay fixes before COLA; council met in closed session on negotiations
Summary
Union representatives told the Hawaiian Gardens City Council that applying a cost-of-living adjustment before compensation-study corrections weakens long-term pay equity and harms morale; the council met in closed session with labor negotiators and reported no final reportable action.
Eric, vice president of the rank-and-file unit, told the council during public comment that the city’s sequencing of pay changes has undercut the corrective purpose of a recent compensation study. "Apply the comp study results first to establish the market equity and then apply the COLA so inflation adjustments are built on an accurate wage," he said, arguing that doing COLA first ‘‘minimizes the long term impact of market corrections’’ and compounds pay disparities over time.
Bashir Mateen, a 25-year staff…
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