Side Bars – Our Obligations – The Purpose of Civil Government – The Witness of the Reformational Church to the Role of the Civil Magistrate – Closing Exhortation

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Measure 41
Amends Constitution: States How Public Employee Earnings Must Be Expressed

While many state employees are performing tasks that should be left to the family, the church, or business, there are, of course, legitimate state functions to be performed by civil servants. Because these “public employees” are paid by your non-voluntary tax dollars, you should expect a fair accounting by the State of how much they earn. This Measure would makes sure that these earnings are fully disclosed to the taxpayers. It would increase the responsibility of the administrative branch to the electorate, and we thus recommend a YES vote.

QUESTION: Shall constitution require that public employee earnings be expressed as employer's cost for employee per hour worked, including wages, benefits?

SUMMARY: Amends constitution. Measure requires that public employees' earnings be expressed as costs borne by the employer for the employee's benefit. Those costs include base pay/salary, benefit package, vacation, clothing allowance, rest and meal breaks, holiday pay, personal leave, social security and Medicare taxes, retirement, federal unemployment taxes, family leave, sick leave, bonuses, merit pay, overtime, child care, compensation time, employer tax, continuing education, and state unemployment taxes. Workers' compensation premiums are excluded. Measure makes complete information regarding employer costs available to the public.

This voters' guide produced by Parents Education Association, PAC.