2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 18A - STATE PERSONNEL 18A.355 Formula for increasing base salary or wages of state employees -- Percentage of annual increment may be reduced.
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18A.355 Formula for increasing base salary or wages of state employees -Percentage of annual increment may be reduced.
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An annual increment of not less than five percent (5%) of the base salary or
wages of each state employee shall be granted to each employee on his
anniversary date. The employee's base salary or wages shall be increased by
the amount of the annual increment. When any increment due to a promotion,
reallocation, reclassification or salary adjustment is granted an employee, the
employee's base salary or wages shall be increased by the amount of such
increment. An employee's base salary or wages shall not be increased by the
amount of lump-sum payment awarded under KRS 18A.110(7)(j).
The branch budget recommendation submitted to the General Assembly under
KRS Chapter 48 shall include a request for the amount of the annual increment
expressed as a percentage of each employee's base salary or wages and a
request for the total appropriation needed to fund the annual increment. The
annual increment shall be uniform for all employees. The financial plan enacted
under the provisions of KRS 48.300 shall contain the annual increment
expressed as a percentage of each employee's base salary or wages, and the
total appropriation needed to fund the annual increment.
The budget reduction plan submitted and enacted under the provisions of KRS
Chapter 48 shall provide that a reduction of the annual increment granted
under this section shall be made only after other cost savings measures, as
provided by KRS 18A.1132, are taken. Any such reduction shall be uniform for
all state employees and shall comply with the provisions of this chapter and
KRS Chapter 48.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 501, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2000. -Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 494, sec. 22, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended
1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 168, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1982 Ky.
Acts ch. 456, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1982.
2014-2016 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2014 Ky. Acts
ch. 117, Pt. IV, 2 at 743.
Legislative Research Commission Note (10/19/2004). 2004 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky.
Acts ch. 1, sec. 10, provides, "Notwithstanding KRS 18A.355(1):
(1) A cost-of-living adjustment of two percent is provided in fiscal year
2004- 2005 on the base salary or wages of each eligible state employee on his
or her
anniversary date and shall apply retroactively to July 1, 2004; and
(2) Effective January 1, 2005, an additional cost-of-living adjustment of
one percent is provided on the base salary or wages of each eligible state
mployee."
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