Dallas
City Council rejects mayor’s call for merit raises, voting instead for a
blanket 3 percent
2 .
Category of problem/issue
identified in article: environment
and financial
3. Level
of problem/issue: local level
4. This
article is a potential policy that is being considered to help a problem/issue
that individuals face
5. This
article is important for individual city workers because the issue concerned
city workers pay checks by either having pay increases based on merit or pay
increases that would be given to everyone across the board. The outcome of the
vote favored pay increases that would be given across the board rather than
based on merit.
6. My
opinion on this issue is that Mayor Mike Rawlings had a great idea in basing
pay raises on how well and hard someone works. By giving pay increases off of
merit it could encourage the more lazy workers to work harder. It would also
reward the workers that go the extra mile at work. However, there would be many issues in
raising workers’ pay this way. One issue is that someone who works really hard
and to their best ability may get overlooked and not receive a pay increase.
Another issue with this proposal is that the workers may become too competitive
amongst themselves causing a hostile work environment. Lastly, the distribution
of pay increases could become a political problem by the distributor picking
favorites or not handing out a pay increase to some workers who deserve it
because they do not like them. The council members ended up voting for a 3%
raise to all city workers which seems fair for now. I do however think that in
the future adding some type of merit pay would be a good thing to try out.
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