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State Announces Career Center Layoffs
On April 19th, the Department of Labor and Workforce development held meetings in various locations throughout the state to notify 72 full-time state employees that their jobs were being terminated [&hellip
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State Employees to receive 1.5% raise
During this legislative session, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a $32.8 billion state budget. Included in the budget is a 1.5% raise for state employees. TSEA worked hard to ensure [&hellip
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Senator Kyle and Senator Ketron take a stand for Higher Education employees
This week, the Tennessee General Assembly adopted a $32.8 billion 2013-2014 state budget that includes a 1.5% raise for state employees, higher education employees, and K-12 teachers. During Tuesday night’s [&hellip
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State Prepares to Implement Salary Adjustments: Payment adjustments to begin with July 1st pay period
As we have previously reported, the State is finishing a salary study that will be implemented on July 1st, 2013. This, of course, is the salary study for which nearly [&hellip
Read More »Press Release: State to require IT workers to reapply for their jobs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 11, 2013 CONTACT: Chris Dauphin OFFICE: (615) 256-4533 State to require IT workers to reapply for their jobs Earlier this week, the Tennessee State Employees [&hellip
Read More »Anti-TSEA Bill SB0725 Defeated 3/27/13 in Senate Committee
UPDATE 4/2: Rep. Casada’s Union bill (HB0913) was rolled in the House State Government Committee to the first calendar of 2014, this was the companion bill to SB0725. — We [&hellip
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URGENT Legislative Call to Action!
Yesterday, the House State Government Subcommittee allowed a hostile bill detrimental to TSEA’s operations pass on to the full State Government Committee with little questioning. The majority of provisions in [&hellip
Read More »Important committee meetings that state employees need to attend
Pension Plan Update, 3/13/13 This afternoon the House State Government Subcommittee passed the Pension bill on to the full committee without allowing any discussion of the bill. The full committee [&hellip
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Present state employees unaffected by proposed pension changes
As you may know, earlier this week Tennessee State Treasurer David Lillard proposed to the Council on Pensions and Insurance a new Hybrid Pension Plan for state employees, higher education [&hellip
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2012 closes with many high-level meetings
TSEA attends all 2013 Budget Hearings, State Group Insurance meetings, DOHR meetings, and meetings with many other state departments and officials. The end of 2012 was a very productive time [&hellip
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