County will pick up pension costs
There was some good news (hopefully) recently from Stanislaus County in California when it was announced that deputies would pay their share of the monthly cost for pension benefits through paycheck deductions, but the county would give them a 13.4 percent salary increase to cover the expense. In what officials are calling a one-to-one conversion, the salary hike is equal to the full employee pension contribution that the county has picked up for sworn deputies since 2006.
The Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act requires new hires pay for at least 50 percent of the normal costs of their pensions. And public-agency employers are prohibited from paying the contribution on the behalf of employees. But in California, it has been common for counties to pick up the pension contributions for law enforcement employees. The reform law affects workers hired on or after Jan. 1, 2013, but cannot apply to Stanislaus County deputies until a union contract expires June 30.
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