Thousands of state employees and University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members won’t see any salary increases until July 2011, under budget-cutting action that legislative leaders took Wednesday.
The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Employment Relations unanimously voted to rescind a 2% pay increase that was to take effect in June. The action is final; the full Legislature will not take up the matter.
Gov. Jim Doyle had recommended the salary freezes as a way to make up for a shortfall in tax collections that increased the two-year state deficit by $1.6 billion, putting it at $6.6 billion.