University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 25, 1987
State senator calls for revisions in classified workers' pay plan
By BENJAMIN HALL
Staff writer
Kansas should improve the way it pays its classified employees, Lawrence's state senator said at a KU Classified Senate meeting last night.
Classified employees who work longer for the state need better recognition, State Seen, Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said.
Under the current pay system, classified employees are assigned entry-level salaries and maximum salaries. Their pay is re-evaluated twice in their first year of employment and once a year for the next four years. They are not faculty members.
After that, classified employees receive raises in three-year increments, which means they receive a
raise at the end of three years rather than smaller raises every year.
The present system was created two years ago, Winter said.
"The salary plan we worked on to have some holes filled in," he said.
The Kansas Legislature should improve longevity raises, Winter said. The system is designed to help people with less seniority.
"That's conscious, to address the grossest inequity," he said.
Don Dowdey, a Watson Library assistant, said, "People at the bottom end get something every year. People at the top get nothing, while people in the middle get a little once in a while."
Bill Parrison, a computer operator, said some employees disliked the current pay system because the
legislature could change it again within three years, before some employees would receive a pay increase.
Some classified employees at the meeting said they would prefer to receive pay raises every year rather than a larger raise after three years.
"The real key to the salary plan is that we hope that it insulates state employees from economic downturns and upturns." Winter said.
Legislators won't consider pay for classified state employees until late in the legislative session, Winter said.
Neva Entrikin, vice president of KU's Classified Senate, said she thought most legislators weren't interested in taking care of long-term classified employees.
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