Thursday, January 21, 2010

HB 151 Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2010

NOTE:  All of the bills I'm posting can be found at the General Assembly website.  There is a link to the right that should take you there.  If it does not work, let me know.

HB151
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SECTION 31.  . . . State employees employed by any entity, including the University of MD System, Morgan State University and St. Mary's College of MD, may not receive bonuses, merit increases, or cost of living raises in FY 2011.  THIS PROVISION DOES NOT AFFECT SALARIES FOR CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS OR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OR INCREASES NECESSARY FOR THE RETENTION OF FACULTY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SYSTEM, MORGAN STATE OR ST. MARY'S.


               It appears they are leaving the door open so that they can given raises to themselves, the Governor and the Lt Governor.  In case you are unaware, there are 5,000 employees that make more than 100,000.  3,900 of them work for the University Systems.  It also appears, the University System is exempt from the no pay raise rule.


SECTION 32.  In FY 2011, the State is not required to make the employer contributions to the applicable State supplemental plan for participating employees in the Optional Defined Contribution System.


                No biggie ... we already knew this ... no match to the 401K.


Page 39
Section 4(A)(1)  For FY 2011 or during any fiscal year in which appropriations are reduced ... because of a projected deficit, by Executive Order, the Governor may institute a furlough or temporary salary reduction plan for Executive Branch employees of the State of Maryland.


. . .  shall specify how the furlough or temporary reduction plan applies to various employees of the State of MD . . .


Section 34.  . . . calculation of the rate of overtime payments for current State employees subject to a temporary salary reduction ordered by the Governor in the FY 2010 or 2011, shall be based on the salary schedule in effect on July 1, 2009.  This ... retroactively to September 23, 2009.


             My take on the above is that if you work overtime your overtime pay rate is what your pay was on 9/23rd and not what the current reduced pay scale says.  I wonder if that also applies to those that do not get OT pay but instead get comp time?


                                        Chapter 487 of the Acts of 2009


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Section 19.  . . . an employee entitled to compensation for unused leave upon termination of State employment during a mandatory temporary salary reduction plan shall receive such compenation at the employee's rate of compensation in effect immediately prior to the temporary salary reduction.  This section applies retroactively and shall be applied to and interpreted to affect the calculation of unused annual leave payouts for employees leaving state employment on or after February 11, 2009.


              My take is that you will be paid based on the pay scale, not the reduced pay scale.  I AM WONDERING ... THINK WE CAN FIND A LEGISLATOR TO ADD SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE THAT LOSE THEIR JOBS DUE TO ABOLISHMENTS AND LAYOFFS GETTING SOME KIND OF COMPENSATION FOR THEIR UNUSED SICK TIME?  Your thoughts on that please?

3 comments:

John J. Walters said...

Good post -- taking some of the highlights out the BRFA. Sadly, there are so many more examples of government theft that don't pertain specifically to public employees contained in this year's bill.

I was just put on a project analyzing the BRFAs throughout this administration (O'Malley) and the one previous (Ehrlich). Having never really studied these before, I must admit that I was shocked and a little outraged at what I saw when I look at the most recent one.

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