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GOP Senators: Take Overtime Out Of Pension Calculations
January 24, 2012|By JON LENDER
Two Republican state senators called Tuesday for passage of a bill this year to take pensions for future state employees out of union negotiations and to stop employees' widespread practice of "padding" of their pensions with heavy overtime as they prepare to retire.
But a spokesman for Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said later that the administration would not support the proposal in the legislative session scheduled to open Feb. 8. A contract settlement reached by the administration with state unions last year leaves much the same basic pension structure in effect until 2022, including counting overtime in the calculation of pensions.
At a press conference in Hartford, state Sens. Andrew Roraback of Goshen and Jason Welch of Bristol cited information from recent Courant stories as evidence for why pension rules should be changed for employees hired after July 1, 2012.