HARRISBURG (June 19) – Is a Senate committee’s approvalof a plan to put future state employees and all re-elected state officials and retained judges into a new pension plan symbolic, or 11 days from being law? I dunno. The plan, fashioned by Senate GOP leaders and Senate Finance Chairman Mike Brubaker, R-Lancaster, may be the only …
HARRISBURG – Police voted Wednesday to approve a contract that will freeze pay for the next two years and increase costs for health coverage to at least one percent of each officers’ salaries. It also allows officers to live outside the city, a change that won’t become official until it goes through the proper administrative …
Capitolwire: Senate panel approves plan to create 401(k)-style retirement plan for nearly all state employees. By Chris Comisac Deputy Bureau Chief Capitolwire HARRISBURG (June 19) – Just about every future hire in state government – including those elected or re-elected in the Legislature, row offices and elected or retained in the judiciary – would be …
The date and time for counting of the ballots for the statewide 2013 election will be Monday, June 24, 2013 at 9:00 am. The ballot count will occur at the offices of the American Arbitration Association, 230 S. Broad St., 12th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102-4106 Â
Corrections Officers and Employees Month THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA  HOUSE RESOLUTION No. 337 A RESOLUTION Designating the month of June 2013 as “Corrections Officers andEmployees Month” in Pennsylvania. WHEREAS, Corrections officers and employees form the backboneof the correctional system of this Commonwealth; and WHEREAS, Corrections officers and employees face thepossibility of harm every day they …
For Immediate Release June 4, 2013       Argall Bill to Establish ҠReviewed in Senate Hearing  HARRISBURG – Legislation sponsored by Senator David Argall (R-29) to ensure that Pennsylvania corrections officers maintain their constitutional rights during disciplinary proceedings was the topic of a Senate Labor and Industry Committee hearing today.  Argall said that Senate Bill …