State pays bonuses, salaries in unreliable manner
SAIJ-.M lArj i n<* u«iy the state pa\ s umpim
its is in such disarray it makes little sense, with
sortie workers paid loo little and others too much,
according to a secretary of state s audit
The state's pay system is "so riddled with excep
tions. inconsistencies and lack of information, that
it ts not a reliable way to understand how state work
ers ore actually paid.' Secretary of State Phi! kox
ling said.
kei sling said the audit showed abuse of the state's
prat Su e of awarding special pay to employees based
on labor market conditions.
These so-called "pay-line exceptions" cost the
state at least $'> fi million in unjustified bonuses
based on n sampling of state job classifications
The bonuses are supposed to go to top priority
jobs situations in whic h it is difficult to find qual
ified candidates and to bring public employees up
to the pay standards enjoyed by their private sec
tor counterparts
One-third of all state workers get extra money
and in many cases, the bonuses are negotiated
through collective bargaining,
However, a sampling of 1ft job dassifii ations
found no justification In either the tabor market,
employee turnover or other data — for bonuses giv
en to -t.filft state workers in nine categories
Bonuses were instituted for registered nurses
wht'n tHr* having a hard linn* rv« mittng
thorn With J'Hl nurses on the watting list for state
Job*, the bonuses are no longer m* esvirv
Alis e Dale, nmuton dinctor of the Oregon Pub
lic Employees Union, sets! if the state c uts hac k
on the extra money it probably will have trouble
recruiting and retaining workers
The audit found that tn at least la cases, former
manners were reclassified as line workers hut kejit
their managerial salaries and qualified for extra jwv
as ’lead workers.”
Two of these workers, who were not identified,
ended up making $3,000 more a year after thev were
demoted
At the same time, statu workers in general are
paid less than private sector employees, according
to both the audit and a separate report from the stale
Legislative Fisc nl Offii e
Mate workers have faileii fi.-luud lie, ,ium their
salaries luive been frozen since early 1993. the rejKirt
•wild The average state worker was to pen «nt below
private market compensation as of last October
Unless the workers get a pav hike, the report pre
die ted. that gap w ill grow to 13 pen ent hv the end
of per, The report blame-. Me.isor,- H. the voter
approved initiative that requires puhlii employees
to contribute (i percent of their pav to their pen
sions
MEASURE
Continued from Page 1
Frohnroayar alao said the
measure violates provisions
in the Oregon Constitution
that status an initiative can
amend, hut not revise, the
constitution
"The changes of Measure H
are so sweeping." Frohnmav
er said “They are a revision."
The third argument the
plaintiffs make is that the ini
tiative is legislative m nature
"You cannot put legislation
into the constitution," he said
"You can only put constitu
tional type directives in the
constitution Measure H is leg
islative in tuitun4 and therefore
does not txdong in the consti
tution.'* Frohmnaver said
1 rohnmaver has worked as
•it unpaid, unofficial consul
font of the Fugene law firm.
Harrang Long Gary Kudnu k
I to draft and adit the chal
lenge
Thr challenge requests
action for a declaratory judg
ment. Frohnmavor said,
which moans the plaintiffs
am asking tin* court to make
a dw larotion that the mwmmi
is unconstitutional without
tin* present c of a jury
Kven if just cum part tin*
measure is found to be uncon
stitutional. th« entire measurti
will be thrown out. Frohn
ntayer said
"We hope it will !«< moved
very rapidly to summary lodg
ment after the Attorney (am
end'* offii e. who flits to defend
it. has filed its answer." the
I 'line; Mt\ president said
Two juveniles accused of shooting migrant worker go on trial
WENATCHEE. Wash (AP)
Judge John Bridges stood on the
edge of a steep embankment
Thursday, looking down to the
edge of the Columbia River where
police say two 12-year-old boys
shot a migrant worker ih times
last summer.
Bridges, acting as a Chelan
County Juvenile Court judge,
went to the river bank at dusk at
the end of the first day of John
Duncan's trial for first-degree
murder.
Bridges is hearing the case
without a jury.
Duncan and Manuel Sanchez,
both of Wenatchee, are charged
with first-degree murder in the
Aug. 20 shooting death of sea
sonal worker Emilio Pruneda.
Sanchez goes on trial next
Wednesday If convicted, the
youths con he held in juvenile
facilities until they are 21
Deputy Prosecutor Gordon
Edgar asked the judge to view the
site where Pruneda was killed
after eight police officers
described the location in testi
mony.
"The pictures we have and the
diagrams do not do justu e to the
scene." said Edgar, adding he
wanted the judge "to know this
terrain. to see how the budv
was situated
I t,•tense 1.1 'A UT Neil t uNer
objected, faying the site would
have changed since the shooting
Hut Bridges, while conceding he
really didn't want to go out into
the cold, overruled the objection
In statements to police, both
boys acknowledged shooting
Pruneda Hut Duncan said he
reloaded two guns, then stood
over the wounded man and etnp
tied the bullets from both guns
into Pruneda's body.
The boys said Pruneda threw
rocks at them after they fired too
close to him with guns thev had
stolen that afternoon and taken
to the river with which to play
Bridges, Fuller and Edgar were
accompanied to the site by two
police officers and Sanchez's
defense lawyer. Tom Caballero.
■ CORRECTION
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the Emerald, the man on the
front page was incorrectly
identified as a panhandler
We regret the error and are
sorry for the inconvenient e.
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They squeezed through a
fence's chained gate then slid
down a steep hill to get to rad
road trai ks that sit atop a steep
embankment.
Wenatchee police officer "I ok i
Gordon testified she had watched
from a hill 300 yards above the
embankment as Duncan twice
ran up the embankment, am u
kneeling by n gym bag where
police snv he had stashed estra
ammunition.
Sanchez had come up the
r
emUmkment oiu«. (hen sat near
the gvni l>ag while Dunum went
down toward the river again, she
Mid.
Sgt Terry Pippin showed
Bridges the trail the youths
allegedly used and pointed out
Pruneda's campsite, where a
blanket remained
Pippin jumped onto a ru< k
where Duni an told authorities he
Stood as he emptied the bullets
from two guns, shooting toward
Prune-da, whose body was found
|ust out ol the water.
Offii nr Randy Yurmdl of th»
l ast Wtmntcher Polii r Depart
meat testified earlier Ihursdiiv
he find watched through hinot u
l«»r*i from «it rnss the river ns Dun
inn aimed at f’runoda
Duni an “wont out on a rod,
and raised Ins arm then I heard
Kunslmt mimennis ijmiitu*."
Yarned said
Kdgnr said hr ex pet tnl thr iri
al to end Friday
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UH
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