Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Civil Service Urges Increase in Base Pay for some State Workers

Civil Service is proposing to increase the base pay of nearly 7,400 state employees, who are at the minimum pay in their job categories.

Civil Service Commission director Ann Soileau said Monday three options have been submitted to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s budget planners that could bring 3 percent to 10 percent pay raises to many workers.

State government could find filling jobs more and more difficult unless minimum pay increases, she said.

Soileau said she has received no word from the governor’s budget office on the proposals.

Merit increases of 4 percent annually go to most of the state’s 60,000 state Civil Service employees. Civil Service establishes job categories and pay ranges for jobs within them.

The Civil Service proposals would increase the minimum or entry level pay within those ranges
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2 comments:

360 said...

what about the state workers that have been working for more than a couple of years and still have a hard time buying gas to go back and fourth to work and putting food on the table for their kids

360 said...

What about the state workers that have been there for more than a couple of years and and still have a hard time buying gas to go back and fourth to work and to put food on the table for their family