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Resolve, To Provide Wage Parity for Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Corrections with Other Law Enforcement Officers
Sec. 1 Adjustment of salary schedules for certain law enforcement position classifications in the Department of Corrections. Resolved: That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective at the beginning of the pay period commencing closest to October 1, 2017, the salary schedules for all positions in the Department of Corrections classified as Adult Probation Officer, Juvenile Community Corrections Officer or Correctional Investigator that are included in the law enforcement bargaining unit or the supervisory services bargaining unit must be adjusted upward by 15%.
 
SUMMARY
In Resolve 2015, chapter 80, the salary schedules for certain law enforcement positions, including those in the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Marine Resources, but not including the Department of Corrections, were adjusted upward by 12% to 18%.
This resolve requires the salary schedules for law enforcement positions in the Department of Corrections to be adjusted upward by 15%.