The Florida Senate and House released their respective budget proposals on Good Friday – both promising good news for state employees. The House offers every state worker a $1,400 raise with funds for individual agencies to provide additional merit increases for exceptional employees. The Senate budget proposes a straight 3% across-the-board pay increase for state [...]
Pay in Play as 2013 Session Convenes
For the first time in six years legislative leaders along with Governor Rick Scott are openly discussing an issue of great importance that has long been lost in the wreckage of state budget deficits: pay raises. Anticipating a budget surplus for the first time in five years state leaders are testing the water with various [...]
Supreme Court Upholds Pension Changes
January 17, 2013 – In a 4-3 decision the Florida Supreme Court has upheld sweeping changes the state made in 2011 to the Florida Retirement System (FRS). The law was challenged by the statewide teachers’ union and other public employee labor organizations, who contended that changes to the law requiring employees to contribute 3 percent [...]
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