State Employee Compensation Work-Group (language only)

Item 255 #1c

Language
Page 215, line 7, before "The"  insert "A."
Page 215, after line 10, insert:
"B.1  The Secretary of Finance and the Secretary of Administration shall convene a work-group comprised of representatives from the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court, the Department of Human Resource Management, and the Department of Planning and Budget, and such state employee representatives as may seem appropriate, to conduct a comprehensive review of compensation for state employees.  The study shall address compression, recruitment, retention, hiring practices, and strategies to minimize future compensation disparities. All state agencies shall provide information as required for the work-group to conduct its study.  
2. Priorities of the work-group shall include a review of compensation for public safety related personnel and a review of the pay practices and salary schedules of the deputy clerks in the district courts, with a comparison to pay practices for other public sector employees doing comparable work.
3. The work-group's initial recommendations and findings shall be submitted  no later than November 1, 2013, with the study to be completed on or before June 30, 2014."

Explanation
(This amendment is self-explanatory.)