Sec. 5-200c. Elimination of wage inequities in state service.
Sec. 5-200c. Elimination of wage inequities in state service. (a) Commencing
with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1988, and each fiscal year thereafter, the General
Assembly shall appropriate sufficient funds to the reserve for salary adjustments account
in the annual appropriations act for such fiscal year to be designated for use in eliminating
inequities, including sex-based inequities, within and between all job families in the
wages paid for state service, as identified by the findings of (1) the objective job evaluation process conducted by the Commissioner of Administrative Services pursuant to
section 5-200a, (2) objective job evaluation studies of unclassified employees, and (3)
other studies negotiated under collective bargaining agreements. Inequities shall not be
eliminated through the downgrading of any job classification or salaries. Extraordinary
variations in compensation in relation to point values assigned by such studies shall not
necessarily be used as a basis for upgradings of any job classifications or salaries and
shall be a subject for collective bargaining. Such funds shall be distributed in a manner
to be determined by collective bargaining. All such wage inequities shall be eliminated
by July 1, 1995.
(b) Upon the completion of the studies referred to in subdivisions (2) and (3) of
subsection (a) of this section and the implementation of the results of such studies,
collective bargaining negotiations concerning wage changes as a result of objective job
evaluations shall commence not later than April 1, 1993. Notwithstanding the provisions
of subsection (a) of section 5-278, such negotiations shall be conducted between the
employer, as defined in subsection (a) of section 5-270, and a coalition committee which
represents all state employees who are members of any designated employee organization. The results of any such negotiations shall be implemented as of July 1, 1995. All
wage inequities shall be deemed to have been eliminated upon the implementation of
such results. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to affect any appeal related to any
objective job evaluation studies previously taken or allowed or any litigation pending on
June 25, 1991, or to prohibit the continued use of a point factor value system for the
evaluation of newly created job classifications.
(P.A. 87-407, S. 1, 5; P.A. 91-321, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-4, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-12, S. 1, 3.)
History: P.A. 91-321 designated existing section as Subsec. (a), changed the date for the elimination of wage inequities
from June 30, 1991, to June 30, 1993, and added Subsec. (b) re collective bargaining negotiations concerning wage changes
as a result of objective job evaluations; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-4 extended the date by which wage inequities are required
to be eliminated from June 30, 1993, to June 30, 1994, extended the date by which collective bargaining negotiations
concerning wage changes are required to commence from July 1, 1992, to April 1, 1993, and extended the date by which
results of such negotiations are required to be implemented from July 1, 1993, to July 1, 1994; P.A. 93-12, effective March
31, 1993, extended the date by which wage inequities are required to be eliminated from June 30, 1994, to July 1, 1995,
and extended the date by which the results of negotiations concerning wage changes are required to be implemented from
July 1, 1994, to July 1, 1995.