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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
Also cutting salaries is much easier said than done - how do you propose to do that? If you cut nurse salaries for instance you are then in a position where more nurses leave the province and shortages are magnified leading to increased overtime and a further increase to costs.
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I don't think any party is proposing cuts to nurses salaries. The Wildrose put out the following proposals.
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• Rolling back the 34% salary increases for the Premier and Cabinet Ministers voted for by Redford and other Cabinet members in 2008
• Eliminating the tax-free portion of MLA salaries
• Cutting and capping transition allowances for retiring MLAs by reducing it by two-thirds to one month’s pay per year of service to a maximum of 12 months
• Indexing MLA and cabinet salaries to the rate of inflation, rather than the average weekly wage index which is often double or triple the inflation rate
• Mandating an independent MLA pay committee – representative of Alberta’s population – to review pay and benefits once every 8 years
• Having the Committee report their recommendations before every second provincial election. MLAs, through the Legislature’s Members’ Services Committee, would then vote on those salaries and choose to either accept the recommendations or take less (taking more would be prohibited) prior to voters heading to the polls
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