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Cuts in Benefits for State Workers |
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Why are state workers always the target when it comes to budget shortfalls. I was informed that the proposed budget cuts for state employees are anywhere from 3 percent to 6 percent, mandatory furloughs, and a cut in the subsidy for health insurance.
If you make mandatory furloughs then our retirement will be
affected–Leave Without Pay (LWOP) means not earning service time in
Public Employees’ Retirement System which means we have to work longer
in order to retire, along with the wage reduction, no longevity and no
step increases. If you calculate the percentage of state workers
living in any community that will get their salaries cut–there goes
spending needed to increase our revenue. How about cutting the
unclassified salaries, that’s were the big incomes are, not with the
little customer service type state workers who are working hard to
serve Nevada and raise their families.
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