By Tom Answell
Capitol News Service
BATON ROUGE -- Some legislators have been working themselves into an emotional lather over the past several months in efforts to abolish what they mistakenly refer to as “automatic” 4 percent merit increases for state civil service employees.
Lost in all the rhetoric was another “automatic” increase that quietly kicked in last October -- legislators’ per diem payments.
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