Senate Bill No. 398
(By Senators Laird, Minard, Yost and Kessler (Acting President))
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[Introduced February 2, 2011; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §5-5-7, relating to
requiring the Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile
Services and Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
Authority to establish shift differential pay scales for
employees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §5-5-7, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-7. Shift differential pay for Division of Corrections,
Division of Juvenile Services, and Regional Jail and
Correctional Facility Authority employees.
The Division of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services,
and the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shall
each establish a shift differential pay scale of ten percent
higher per hour for all work performed between the hours of five
o'clock p.m. and six o'clock a.m. for:
(1) Any person employed by the Division of Corrections, any
person working at a correctional facility managed by the
Commissioner of Corrections pursuant to contract or as an
employee of a state agency;
(2) Any person working at a correctional facility managed by
the Division of Juvenile Services pursuant to contract or as an
employee of a state agency;
(3) Any person employed by a jail or by the Regional Jail
and Correctional Facility Authority and any person working at a
facility managed by the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
Authority or a jail; and
(4) Any person employed by the Division of Corrections as a
parole officer.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish a shift
differential pay scale for employees of the Division of
Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services and Regional Jail and
Correctional Facility Authority who work between the hours of
5:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. The shift differential pay scale is a ten percent per hour increase.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.