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- Newsgroups: ne.politics
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!lmh
- From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
- Subject: Re: Wages for State Workers
- Message-ID: <By6xM6.3wq@world.std.com>
- Summary: raise as COLA discussed
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <By1HqJ.EMt@world.std.com> <1erfcrINN6kt@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:39:42 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1erfcrINN6kt@transfer.stratus.com> jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
- >In article <By1HqJ.EMt@world.std.com> lmh@world.std.com (Larry M
- >Headlund) writes:
- >> The general state employee's have not received any cost-of-living
- >> or other general increase for four years, managers for six.
- >>
- >
- >Agreed. However, the problem I have with this raise (and with most
- >raises given to public employees for that matter) is that is is
- >across the board, for everyone. All the workers get a 13% pay
- >raise: those who have worked very hard and done outstanding jobs
- >get 13%. Those who have down average jobs get 13%. Those who did
- >poor jobs get 13%. I don't think this is a good nor a fair way
- >to handle such things. I would like to see more positions being
- >given merit raises.
- >
- >
- This general raise is across the board to compensate for inflation.
- Since this is civil service, your pay is determined by your civil service
- classification. That is, if you study, assume more responsibility,
- perform a more demanding job, etc. you are advanced to a higher grade.
- Every person gets the pay set for their grade.
- When you hear that X % of state employees have gotten raises in
- the last five years, it is these step raises that is being refered to.
- Each grade has qualifications including education and experience
- required to attain that grade.
- Why all the rules? Why not just reward the good and punish the
- bad? Mainly to be objective. That is, so that the politicians can't
- coerce goverment employee's or reward their friends without restriction.
- Many large private organizations have similar schemes to restrain
- nepotism and favoritism.
- By the way, one of the motives behind the movement to privatize
- goverment services is to bypass this civil service structure. While
- this may result in some efficiencies, it could be back the problems
- of the "spoils system" that civil service was designed to prevent.
- TANSTAAFL.
-
-
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- Larry Headlund lmh@world.std.com Eikonal Systems (617) 482-3345
-