LOS ANGELES COUNTY : Supervisors Suspend Pay Hike for Dixon Assistants

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to suspend a pay raise granted in July to 60 employees in the Chief Administrative Office.

Supervisor Gloria Molina said other employees not represented by union contracts had not received similar pay increases.

Chief Administrative Officer Richard B. Dixon did not oppose the motion, but noted that although the raises for the office’s management analysts were as high as 8%, the increases were analogous to those granted to 60,000 county workers represented by union contracts. Dixon said that under a performance-based pay plan, some of the employees did not receive the increases while others’ pay was cut up to 2.5%

In another action, the board voted 3 to 2 to request that the governing board of the Air Quality Management District conduct an independent review of the district’s personnel practices. It was reported last week that three federal agencies have decided to investigate allegations of job discrimination and reports of political espionage at the AQMD.