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      Sec. 5-200c. Elimination of wage inequities in state service. (a) Commencing with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1988, and each fiscal year thereafter, the General Assembly shall appropriate sufficient funds to the reserve for salary adjustments account in the annual appropriations act for such fiscal year to be designated for use in eliminating inequities, including sex-based inequities, within and between all job families in the wages paid for state service, as identified by the findings of (1) the objective job evaluation process conducted by the Commissioner of Administrative Services pursuant to section 5-200a, (2) objective job evaluation studies of unclassified employees, and (3) other studies negotiated under collective bargaining agreements. Inequities shall not be eliminated through the downgrading of any job classification or salaries. Extraordinary variations in compensation in relation to point values assigned by such studies shall not necessarily be used as a basis for upgradings of any job classifications or salaries and shall be a subject for collective bargaining. Such funds shall be distributed in a manner to be determined by collective bargaining. All such wage inequities shall be eliminated by July 1, 1995.

      (b) Upon the completion of the studies referred to in subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (a) of this section and the implementation of the results of such studies, collective bargaining negotiations concerning wage changes as a result of objective job evaluations shall commence not later than April 1, 1993. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of section 5-278, such negotiations shall be conducted between the employer, as defined in subsection (a) of section 5-270, and a coalition committee which represents all state employees who are members of any designated employee organization. The results of any such negotiations shall be implemented as of July 1, 1995. All wage inequities shall be deemed to have been eliminated upon the implementation of such results. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to affect any appeal related to any objective job evaluation studies previously taken or allowed or any litigation pending on June 25, 1991, or to prohibit the continued use of a point factor value system for the evaluation of newly created job classifications.

      (P.A. 87-407, S. 1, 5; P.A. 91-321, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-4, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-12, S. 1, 3.)

      History: P.A. 91-321 designated existing section as Subsec. (a), changed the date for the elimination of wage inequities from June 30, 1991, to June 30, 1993, and added Subsec. (b) re collective bargaining negotiations concerning wage changes as a result of objective job evaluations; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-4 extended the date by which wage inequities are required to be eliminated from June 30, 1993, to June 30, 1994, extended the date by which collective bargaining negotiations concerning wage changes are required to commence from July 1, 1992, to April 1, 1993, and extended the date by which results of such negotiations are required to be implemented from July 1, 1993, to July 1, 1994; P.A. 93-12, effective March 31, 1993, extended the date by which wage inequities are required to be eliminated from June 30, 1994, to July 1, 1995, and extended the date by which the results of negotiations concerning wage changes are required to be implemented from July 1, 1994, to July 1, 1995.