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New USM president raises mininum annual salary

Associated Press — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:24:28 +0000

HATTIESBURG — University of Southern Mississippi President Rodney Bennett has announced a new minimum salary of $21,000 a year to go into effect July 1. Currently 194 employees, many of them in custodial positions, make below that amount. Bennett called the salary hikes “the right thing to do.” He said that many employees work second [...]

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Circuit clerk’s pay issue results in lawsuit, countersuit

Associated Press — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:47:30 +0000

VICKSBURG — Trading one debt in the circuit clerk’s office to pay off another in time for Circuit Clerk Shelly Ashley-Palmertree to win a third term was a big deal to her in 2011. So much so, that it was written in a letter to state auditors agreeing to the swap. “Pursuant to our phone [...]

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Automaker’s workforce to get pay raise this fall

Associated Press — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:16:23 +0000

CANTON — Nissan Motor Co. will raise pay for its employees in Mississippi and Tennessee. The company has told its employees it will increase their wages starting in October at its Canton and Smyrna, Tenn., assembly plants, as well as its Decherd, Tenn., engine plant. Nissan says pay will go up by 55 cents an [...]

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Mayor vetoes pay hike for himself, aldermen

Associated Press — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:28:48 +0000

STARKVILLE — Mayor Parker Wiseman has vetoed a salary increase for members of the board of aldermen and the mayor. The Starkville Daily News reports the city board had approved the raises Jan. 2 on a 6-1 vote. Wiseman vetoed it Tuesday. The proposal would increase the aldermen’s annual pay from $12,000 to $15,000 and [...]

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Capital City switching to new payroll system

Associated Press — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:48:58 +0000

JACKSON — A new payroll system in Jackson won’t cut the pay of city employees, but workers still will receive less money for the first seven months of 2013. The Clarion-Ledger reports the city is switching to a bi-weekly pay system from the bi-monthly one it uses now, spreading employee pay over 26 pay periods [...]

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Council adopts new formula to set employees’ salaries

Associated Press — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:20:33 +0000

PASCAGOULA — The Pascagoula City Council has approved a new approach to determine the salaries for city employees to go into effect in 2013. The Sun Herald reports the new plan will base salary off of the jobs’ values rather than the people fulfilling those positions. In a study that compared Pascagoula’s city employees’ salaries [...]

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Business settles with government, to pay workers back wages

Associated Press — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:31:01 +0000

GULFPORT — Mandal’s Inc. has agreed with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay 94 employees $85,106 in back wages. The Labor Department said in a news release that its Wage and Hour Division found the company had paid the employees “straight time” for hours worked beyond 40 in a work week. The government says [...]

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Capital City to pay fine to Labor Department for overtime violations

Associated Press — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:31:18 +0000

JACKSON — The Department of Labor has fined the city of Jackson $31,750 for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act uncovered during a recent federal probe. The Clarion-Ledger reports the department began investigating the city in late 2011 after some unidentified officers complained that their superiors were making them work overtime without proper pay. [...]

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BEA: State sees significant jump in personal income

Associated Press — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:01:59 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Finally, some good news about Mississippi’s economy. Personal income grew at a 1.2 percent annual rate in 2012′s second quarter, the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis said today. That’s sixth-highest among the states. Personal income grew 1 percent nationwide. Workplace earnings and government payments grew faster than the nation, while dividend, interest [...]

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Census report shows drop in household income

Associated Press — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:07:18 +0000

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — Households in South Mississippi are continuing to earn less. That’s according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Elaine G. Wilkinson, executive director of the Gulf Regional Planning Commission, tells the Sun Herald it isn’t surprising to families living from paycheck to paycheck. According to the 2011 American Community Survey, the [...]

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