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A Florida public employee evaluation process is putting state unions on the defensive. This is in the context of a proposed budget that cuts thousands of public jobs and requires workers to contribute part of their salaries to their pensions.

The Republican-controlled Legislature is also directly targeting public employee unions. Florida Governor Rick Scott is a former hospital CEO, and he campaigned on a promise to run Florida like a business. For public workers, his pension proposals amount to a pay cut of somewhere between 3 and 5% a year. Pension changes are just the beginning, though, as the Governor has also pledged to pare state worker rolls by 5,000 jobs and has proposed steep cuts in education spending. He is also in favor of privatizing some prisons, public hospitals and health services. This would result in the move of thousands of state workers into the private sector, meaning big changes to their pay and benefits.

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The leaders of health service workers at Ghana has asked Fair Wages and Salaries commission to provide proper transparency and fairness in their job evaluation process, they are urged to remain focused and maintain consistency during the job evaluation exercise carried by them.
The current job evaluation exercise is being carried out to address the Health Service Workers Union's concerns regarding disparities and problems in pay packages within the health sector.
The Leadership of the Health Service Workers' Union had thoroughly analyzed and examined the job evaluation results pertaining to few benchmark jobs of their members offered by The FWSC. The leadership through its examination process made it clear that there was a basic error in the job evaluation of 70% jobs offered by FWSC to their members.