The South Dakota Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a bonus pay plan for state workers, and sent it to the floor. The plan would pay a worker with one year experience, one point seven percent of their yearly wages, a worker with two years’ experience would get three point four percent, and workers with five years or more would get a five percent payout. South Dakota State Employees Association Executive Director Eric Ollila says it’s a pretty good compromise…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/02/Eric-Ollila-213a.mp3|titles=Eric Ollila 213a]Ollila says the committee is trying to be fair to all state employees…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/02/Eric-Ollila-213b.mp3|titles=Eric Ollila 213b]Ollila says he thinks the deal will hold together through the session…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/02/Eric-Ollila-213c.mp3|titles=Eric Ollila 213c]The bonus is capped at one hundred fifty thousand dollars. An earlier plan to pay a one-time bonus of twenty three hundred dollars was defeated.