Mississippi State football players sound off on new NCAA legislation
STARKVILLE — It’s been over six years since EA Sports released its last NCAA football video game.
‘Not just fighting fires’: Area fire chiefs compare firefighter pay in profession with increasing training, scope of duties
He’s 21 years old. He has a high school education and a higher-than-average ACT score. He’s just been handed 75 pounds worth of weights and is told to climb a stairclimber with them on his back for three minutes and 20 seconds.
New rule extends overtime to millions of workers
More than 4 million U.S. workers will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules issued Wednesday by the Obama administration.
Women out-earning men in corporate finance
Women may be badly outnumbered in the top ranks of corporate America, but at least they aren’t underpaid.
SEC requires companies to reveal CEO-vs-worker pay gap
Federal regulators have approved a long-delayed rule requiring companies to reveal the pay gap between CEOs and their employees.
School board debates pay additions for coaches, teachers
The Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees voted Monday to approve 58 supplements for teachers who coach or sponsor extracurricular activities, but the board argued over them for nearly an hour.
Media heads rule ranks of best-paid CEOs
They’re not Hollywood stars, they’re not TV personalities and they don’t play in a rock band, but their pay packages are in the same league.
LCSD continues current salary scales
The Lowndes County School Board of Trustees voted Monday to continue its salary scale structure from the current school year into the 2015-2016 year.
Aldermen: Future raises unobtainable without austere spending
The three-person Starkville Audit and Budget Committee told city department heads not to expect across-the-board pay increases for workers.
Aldermen decline raise for city employees
Unlike their county peers, Starkville city employees will not receive a pay raise in the upcoming fiscal year.
Oktibbeha supes approve cost of living adjustment
While their city counterparts are struggling to find money for pay raises and bailout struggling departments, Oktibbeha County supervisors approved an across-the-board, 3 percent cost-of-living adjustment for its employees Monday without increasing the county’s operational tax levy.
Median CEO pay crosses $10M in 2013
They’re the $10 million men and women.
Senate ready to sink effort to boost minimum wage
Hemmed in by solid Republican opposition, the Senate seems ready to hand a fresh defeat to President Barack Obama by blocking an election-year bill increasing the federal minimum wage.
Minimum wage approaches likely rejection
The push by President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage seems ready to join the parade of issues that gets buried in Congress but — the party hopes — propels voters to the polls this November.
Pay increases, merit raises for Miss. teachers
Mississippi public schoolteachers can look forward to a $2,500 pay increase over the next two years on top of normal annual raises, with Gov. Phil Bryant signing a bill Tuesday that he says he hopes will aid performance.
Some exempted from minimum wage, increased or not
Some low-paid workers won’t benefit even if a long-shot Democratic proposal to raise the federal minimum wage becomes law.
GOP blocks bill curbing gender pay gap
Republicans blocked a Senate bill Wednesday aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women, an election-year ritual that Democrats hope will help spur women to back them in this fall’s congressional elections.
Budget office: Wage hike would lift pay, cost jobs
Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing would increase earnings for more than 16.5 million people by 2016 but also cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs, Congress’ nonpartisan budget analyst said Tuesday.
Groups rally for more money for teachers, schools
Public school teachers and education advocates rallied at the Capitol on Monday to push for higher pay and increased state aid to public schools — not a new fight, but one that they hope will have more success this year than it has in the past.
Gunn: Teachers deserve salary increase
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn on Monday repeated his support for an across-the-board teacher pay raise this year.
But the Republican said it will be weeks before lawmakers will know how much money is available to put into raises.