News & Observer Index, 1926-1992

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

Assembly outlook '87 - Ja 18 87 1D
Restoration of free insurance for survivors (of state employees) to be proposed - Fe 13 87 20D
Plan offers criteria for state pay raises - Fe 21 87 5B
Health costs may slice state pay raises - Fe 24 87 1
Legislators say it's too early to tell about state pay raises - Fe 25 87 5C
Martin tries to clarify pay raise plans - Fe 27 87 1D
New merit pay proposal for state employees outlined - Mr 10 87 1C
Editorial: Merit plan needs safeguards - Mr 12 87 28A
Jordan says pay raises top priority - Ap 29 87 9A
Senate backs exemption to protect pensions of divorced state employees - My 28 87 1C
Female senators stop pension legislation - My 29 87 1
House endorses bill on retirement buy-back - My 29 87 14A
Pension bill defeated - My 31 87 29A
4.5% raise expected for state workers - Jn 30 87 5C
Pay hike in budget plan bigger than expected - Jy 21 87 1
Bill would let retirees buy death benefits - Au 13 87 20A
Under the Dome: Official (Lingerfelt) paid more after job-title shift (deputy banking commissioner) - Oc 15 87 1

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

Budget officer expects excess for teacher, state worker raises - Ja 22 84 1
Under the dome: Legislative workers got extra 8% boost - Fe 17 84 1
Ramsey forsees 10%-12% raise - Fe 29 84 1C
Officials link pay raises, new spending for schools - Mr 1 84 14A
Friday wants UNC employees covered by state raise - Mr 6 84 14C
Pay raise, school reforms too expensive, legislators say - Mr 25 84 27A
Under the dome: Revenue boost likely to end pay freeze - My 19 84 1
Hunt recommends 10% pay increase across the board for state employees - My 24 84 1
Legislation allowing banking bill offered (and other bills) - Jn 9 84 3C
Cost-of-living, merit raises add up to 41.2% compounded over 5 years - Jn 18 84 6A
State worker raises not far out of step with private sector - Jn 18 84 1
Joint panel approves raises for state workers, teachers - Jn 20 84 1
State pay raises shouldn't be compared with private-sector figure,
official says - Jn 20 84 1C
Officials say state pension fund is sound despite more than $1.5
billion shortfall - Se 13 84 1C
Hunt budget increases pay by 5 percent - De 7 84 1
Firm will study state salaries for men, women in similar jobs - De 22 84 2C

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

Disability ruling favors state retirees; Judge says state owes back pension checks - Ja 16 92, 1B
State employees' group pushes new pay plan for all workers - Fe 13 92, 4B
Familiar fears of stagnant pay hit state offices - My 10 92, 1C
State workers prepare push for 4% raise - My 12 92, 1B
Editorial: More than one kind of raise - My 14 92, 14A
Spangler pleads for pay raises - My 14 92, 2B
House leaders propose small raises for state workers - My 20 92, 1
Gardner proposes 6% pay hike; But only teachers, lowest-paid state workers would get that much - My 21 92, 4B
Comprehensive pay plan offered - My 29 92, 4B
Tar Heel editors speak: Promises, promises, but who pays the bill? - My 31 92, 21A
Workers demand pay hike; State employees pressure lawmakers - Jn 2 92, 1B
New state pay system wins tentative approval - Jn 10 92, 4B
Proposals for state worker raises (Chart) - Jn 10 92, 6A
State workers earning below poverty wages (Chart) - Jn 10 92, 6A
State's low pay sparks debate; Many paid below the poverty level - Jn 10 92, 1
Panel seeks $522 raise for workers - Jn 11 92, 1B
Editorial: Fair sharing of pay cookie - Jn 12 92, 16A
Proposal may sweeten pensions; But there'll be no increase for state workers until retirement time - Jn 24 92, 4B
Pay-raise plan stalls talks on state budget - Jy 1 92, 4B
Pay hike push fades; Threat to talks on budget cited - Jy 2 92, 1B
House passes proposal giving state workers $600 pay raise - Jy 3 92, 4B
Senate adds bonus to House pay raise bill: lottery - Jy 8 92, 4B
Editorial: While the gettin' is good - Au 23 92, 24A
Tar Heel editors speak: Teachers, state employees must take case to the people - De 20 92, 31A

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

House bill proposed to kill equity study (state pay to men and women) - Fe 26 85 2C
Overtime pay ruling could cost N.C. $7 million yearly - Ap 10 85 2C
General Assembly Round-up: State pensions - Ap 19 85 18A
Percent of salary contributed to 1984 retirement programs by state; by employee (Chart) - Ap 28 85 42A
Bill would cut government size, raise salaries of state workers - My 23 85 22A
Top officials discuss raises in private - Jn 18 85 4C
State workers would get 9.4% pay hike in budget tentatively OK'd by Senate - Jn 25 85 1
State employees association to ask legislature for $2,000 - Se 15 85 37A
Under the dome: State employees to get last incentive checks - De 17 85 1

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

Prospective tax windfall is doubtful as substitute for freeze on salaries - Jn 2 82 1C
Compromise would save longevity pay increases - Jn 4 82 6A
Request snags bill to freeze state salaries - Jn 8 82 2C
Action on salary freeze delayed - Jn 9 82 4B
One-shot bonus payment in works for state workers - Jn 10 82 24A
Salary freeze likely to clear panels today - Jn 11 82 14A
Efforts to freeze salaries showing signs of a thaw - Jn 12 82 1C
Panels back pay freeze, offer hope for bonus - Jn 15 82 1
Under the dome: Fresh effort made for retirement retirement aid - Jn 15 82 1
House OKs bill freezing state workers' salaries - Jn 16 82 1C
State workers' group to seek 25% pay hike - Se 11 82 1C
Officials grim on state pay raises, other requests totaling $1 billion - No 6 82 1C
Hunt may cut back jobs, programs to fund raises - No 13 82 6A
State workers gain two days of sick leave - No 16 82 1C
Hunt hopes wage freeze can be lifted - No 19 82 1D
Hunt urges pay-hike freeze's lifting - De 1 82 1C
Legislators want to end salary freeze, survey shows - De 15 82 20A
Proposed budget may support lifting freeze on state salaries - De 18 82 4C
End to salary freeze predicted by Hunt - De 23 82 1C
Pay freeze to end in July, Hunt says - De 24 82 1C

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

State employees group seek $2,000 pay increase - Ja 28 86 2C
Martin wants 3.2% raise for state workers - My 2 86 1
Pay raise proposal defended by Martin - My 9 86 22D
Raise proposal (for Council of State) draws approval of high officials - My 18 86 30A
N.C. government workers seek raises like those for teachers - Jn 17 86 8B
Long seeking to delay penalty in health plan - Jn 20 86 18A
Editorial: Pay link (state employees-teachers) unnecessary - Jn 23 86 12A
Education liaison (Hayden) likely to get 35% pay raise - Jy 4 86 7B
Under the dome: Troopers' raises anger other workers - Au 5 86 1
Phillips considering job with big raise for Hayden - Au 20 86 20A
State workers' chief predicts 2% raise - No 18 86 18C
Panel told to consider (state) pension fund for venture capital - De 13 86 8B
Under the dome: Primary loser (Robinson) gets 2 state paychecks - De 28 86 1

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

State workers urge cost-of-living raise as alternate to thaw - Ja 12 83 1C
Legislators say revenue growth key to pay thaw - Ja 16 83 27A
Hunt seeks freeze end despite tight budget (State of the State address) - Ja 18 83 1
Plan includes raises for state workers - Ja 19 83 7A
Budget panels told to target cuts to thaw freeze on wages - Fe 9 83 12C
N. C. ranks 29th in pay for average state worker - Fe 17 83 1C
Full retirement (bill on benefits) - Fe 25 83 2D
Insurance pay (question of whether Insurance Dept. employees are overpaid) - Mr 17 83 5C
Under the dome: Ingram spars with legislator over staff - Mr 18 83 1
Coalition requests state pay thaw - Ap 27 83 1C
7 percent pay hike proposed; Hunt backs smaller raise - My 19 83 1C
Hunt urges 5% raise for state workers, teachers - My 20 83 18D
Comp time (bill denying comp time to state employees earning more than
$30,000) - Jn 1 83 12C
Comp time - Jn 2 83 16A
Under the dome: Cut, delay suggested in state pay raise - Jn 29 83 1
Under the dome: Kane's whopping raise spurs complaints - Au 21 83 1
Salary boost topping $6,000 for rehired official (Woods) defended - Se 23 83 18A
Many (law enforcement) officers will get extra pay increase - De 1 83 12B

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, etc.

Under the dome: Hunt ponders delaying 9th pay step - Ja 5 82 1
Boyles says state can afford pay hike - Ja 7 82 33
Hunt says postponing of pay step is possible - Ja 7 82 26A
Hunt's plan to delay raises irks officials - Ja 8 82 1
Hunt backs off pay raise delay - Ja 9 82 21
Economy may scrap state workers' pay hike early - Ja 13 82 32
Trooper's objection (to direct deposit) to delay his pay - Fe 26 82 1
Raise threatened as tax collections dip - Mr 12 82 1D
Hunt says layoffs or end of raise possible - Ap 30 82 1
Under the dome: Pay freeze becoming Hunt's top option - My 7 82 1
Suspending pay raise under study by Hunt - My 8 82 3C
Employee officials gloomy after finance talk with Hunt - My 11 82 8B
State employees, teachers say ending raise would be unfair - My 14 82 7B
Under the dome: Boyles aids employees in budget fight - My 14 82 1
Hunt proposes state pay freeze - My 26 82 1
State salary freeze endorsed by chiefs of money panels - My 27 82 1
Tax measure suggested to avoid salary freeze - My 28 82 1D

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, Etc.

Martin defends his pay proposal for state employees - Fe 8 91 3B
Cuts in state salaries proposed in measure - Ap 13 91 3B
State builds surplus in pension fund - My 14 91 1D
State employees fight plan to cut top salaries - My 16 91 3B
State budget woes making raises unlikely - My 29 91 1
Editorial: Who's getting hurt here - My 31 91 14A
Pay issue threatens to split teachers, state workers - Jn 4 91 3B

State Employees - Salaries, Pensions, Etc.

Roads, pay measure gets tentative OK - Jy 27 89 1
Roads, pay bill gets final OK in legislature - Jy 28 89 1C
Editorial: Employed and in poverty - Au 26 89 18A
DOT challenges findings of salary study - De 19 89 3B

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