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From the Employee Benefits Workgroup, requesting authorization to implement, as soon as permitted by law, wage and benefit policies for active employed members of AFSCME District Council 48 by amending Sections 17.10, 17.14, and 17.16 of the Milwaukee County Code of General Ordinances. (04/21/11: Referred back to the Committees on Finance and Audit and Personnel by the Board.)
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Upon legal adoption of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Budget Repair Bill, the County will be able to apply the wage and benefit concessions included in the 2010 and 2011 Adopted Budgets to members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, District Council 48. In addition, the County is required to immediately impose a 6% pension contribution as opposed to the 4% contribution that was intended to be phased in over the course of 2011. The pension contribution will apply to members of DC 48 and non-represented employees upon adoption of the Budget Repair Bill. It will apply to all other employees represented by non-public safety bargaining units effective January 2012. Implementing these changes will allow the County to rescind the remaining furlough days and, depending on when the changes become effective, partially offset reductions included in the state budget in 2011 and 2012. To reiterate, however, none of these changes can be implemented until 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 is effective.