BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Annual pay raises for state government
workers are suspended next year because of Louisiana's budget
problems.
The Civil Service Commission agreed Friday to suspend raises for
more than 60,000 rank-and-file state employees, called classified
employees. Gov. Bobby Jindal followed that decision hours later
with a suspension of pay boosts for political appointees, known as
unclassified workers.
The orders strip state agencies of their ability to give 4
percent annual "merit raises" to employees in the 2010-11 budget
year that begins July 1.
State workers called the ban unfair, saying the state's budget
shouldn't be balanced on their backs.


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