State employees, who have not had a general pay raise in three years, could get hit with a 5-percent pay cut as Florida deals with an unprecedented fiscal crisis, a major Senate money manager said Monday
Nothing is final and “everything is on the table,” Senate budget chairman J.D. Alexander, R-Winter Haven, said.
A pay cut, if it comes, might be graduated to spare the lowest-earning state employees and more heavily hit the upper salary scales. Alexander’s remarks met with predictable and heated opposition from representatives of state workers, on the eve of the annual lobbying day by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
AFSCME state president Jeanette Wynn said state employees “have been treated like dirt.”
