To exempt law enforcement and fire department employees from a 2011 law that banned automatic seniority-based automatic pay hikes for individual government employees (“step increases”) during the time when a government employee union contract has expired and no replacement has been negotiated. Specifically, the bill would exempt public safety workers covered by a 1969 compulsory arbitration law.   Official Text and Analysis.

Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.

To revise the 2011 law banning no-contract "step increases" to allow government employees to be granted up to six months worth of retroactive increases when there has been no contract and one is finally signed.

To authorize public safety exceptions to the no-contract "step increase" ban that applies to other government employees if this is imposed by a contract impasse binding arbitration panel.