Post by Logan on Mar 23, 2016 0:08:29 GMT -6
LANSING – Thousands of specialized Michigan Department of Corrections employees saw their pay cut while their responsibilities stayed the same because of an apparently pointless reclassification of their positions, an Ingham County judge has ruled.
Ruling in favor of the employees this month in a nearly four-year-old dispute, Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette said the department “fails to point to any evidence that the operations of the MDOC were in any way changed … except that the job titles and compensation rates of these positions were changed.”
In his March 14 decision, Collette overturned earlier decisions by the Michigan Civil Service Commission, which regulates state employees, to restore nearly 2,500 positions to previous, higher-paying classifications.
Spokesmen for the department and the commission said officials still were reviewing Collette’s decision and hadn’t yet decided whether they would appeal. They declined to comment as the legal review continued.
Read more: www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/capitol/2016/03/22/state-workers-pay-arbitrarily-cut-judge-rules/82072008/
Ruling in favor of the employees this month in a nearly four-year-old dispute, Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette said the department “fails to point to any evidence that the operations of the MDOC were in any way changed … except that the job titles and compensation rates of these positions were changed.”
In his March 14 decision, Collette overturned earlier decisions by the Michigan Civil Service Commission, which regulates state employees, to restore nearly 2,500 positions to previous, higher-paying classifications.
Spokesmen for the department and the commission said officials still were reviewing Collette’s decision and hadn’t yet decided whether they would appeal. They declined to comment as the legal review continued.
Read more: www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/capitol/2016/03/22/state-workers-pay-arbitrarily-cut-judge-rules/82072008/