HB519 Alabama 2014 Session

Under existing law, state and public education employees must receive a salary differential from their employers to compensate for the difference between the higher public salary and the lower active duty military pay when called into active duty status by the United States during the war on terrorism which commenced in September 2001

Also under existing law, employees of local governmental entities may receive a salary differential from their employers to compensate the difference between the higher public salary and the lower active duty military pay when called into active duty status by the United States during the war on terrorism which commenced in September 2001, if the local governmental entity chooses to pay the salary differential

This bill would extend the mandatory salary differential for any state employee and the discretionary salary differential for a local governmental entity employee, to any active service in any of the Armed Forces of the United States

This bill would also further provide for the salary differential for public education employees

To amend Sections 31-12-5 and 31-12-6, Code of Alabama 1975, to extend the salary differential for any state employee, employee of a public educational entity, or employee of a local government entity, who is called into active service in any of the Armed Forces of the United States; and to provide that public education employees may receive a salary differential from employers.