Wisconsin governor's pay plan would overhaul time and attendance policies
For years, Wisconsin prison guards who worked the next shift after calling in sick received regular pay for one shift and time-and-a-half for the other. According to WTAQ-TV, the employee attendance provision only applied to the state's prison workers, but the allowance would be abolished by Governor Scott Walker's new pay plan for state employees.
The pay plan would also implement other changes to time and attendance policies, including the elimination of "rules that require supervisors to go down the seniority list for volunteers and then up for forced overtime," United Press International explains.
Additionally, a two-year freeze would be placed on basic salaries for state workers and the grievance procedure would be overhauled. Specifically, complaints would no longer be heard by independent arbitrators and directed to the management's employee relations department instead.
Marty Beil of the Wisconsin State Employees Union expressed concern about the fact that state workers have not had a raise since 2009 and were required to pay a larger portion of their health insurance and pension costs by a law enacted this year, Businessweek reports.
The pay plan would also implement other changes to time and attendance policies, including the elimination of "rules that require supervisors to go down the seniority list for volunteers and then up for forced overtime," United Press International explains.
Additionally, a two-year freeze would be placed on basic salaries for state workers and the grievance procedure would be overhauled. Specifically, complaints would no longer be heard by independent arbitrators and directed to the management's employee relations department instead.
Marty Beil of the Wisconsin State Employees Union expressed concern about the fact that state workers have not had a raise since 2009 and were required to pay a larger portion of their health insurance and pension costs by a law enacted this year, Businessweek reports.
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