By David Pierce
Pocono Record
STROUDSBURG, Pa. — About 100 corrections officers at the Monroe County Correctional Facility will receive 3 percent raises for each of three years, under a contract that won final approval Wednesday from the Monroe County commissioners.
The contract with Teamsters Local 773 is retroactive to last Jan. 1, when the old contract expired.
A corrections officer with up to a year’s experience will be paid $16.73 per hour for 2015, $17.23 per hour in 2016 and $17.75 in 2017. Those with one-to-three years of service will earn hourly rates of $18.09 in 2015, $18.63 in 2016 and $19.19 in 2017.
Hourly wages for corrections officers with three-to-five years of service will be $19.44 this year, $20.02 in 2016 and 20.62 in 2017. Someone with at least 10 years of service will be paid $21.96 per hour this year, $22.62 next year, and $23.30 in 2017.
The negotiated raises are consistent with those paid to nonunion county workers during the past year, Monroe County Commissioner John Moyer said.
“It’s like anything else,” Moyer said of the corrections officer contract. “There’s some good and some bad. We’ll live with it.”
The contract includes 13 full paid holidays and two half-days off immediately before Christmas and New Year’s.
Eligible full-time workers will earn one sick day for each month of employment. Employees are banned from cashing in unused sick days at retirement or termination.
Workers with two to five years of service are entitled to 10 days vacation. Vacation increases to 15 days annually for those in their sixth through eighth year of service. Corrections officers earn an additional vacation day for every two years of service after the eighth year. Workers entering their 39th year with the county are entitled to 26 annual paid vacation days.
Other aspects of the contract cover procedures for adjudicating grievances and the rights of workers and management.
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