Employees of division
This law covers how the workers' compensation division hires staff and sets their pay. It sets specific salary levels for judges and legal staff based on a percentage of what a regular circuit court judge earns. It also says that when hiring, the division should try to pick roughly equal numbers of people from the two biggest political parties in Missouri.
*287.615. Employees of — — s. — 1. The division may appoint or employ such persons as may be necessary to the proper of this chapter. All salaries to clerical employees shall be by the division and approved by the . Beginning January 1, 2006, the annual salary of each , , and shall be as follows:
(1) For any chief legal counsel located at the division office in Jefferson City, Missouri, compensation at two thousand dollars above eighty percent of the rate at which an is compensated;
(2) For each administrative law judge, compensation at ninety percent of the rate at which an is compensated;
(3) For each administrative law judge in charge, compensation at the same rate as an administrative law judge plus five thousand dollars.
2. The salary of the of the shall be set by the director of the , but shall not be less than the salary plus two thousand dollars of an administrative law judge in charge. The appointees in each shall be selected as nearly as in equal numbers from each of the two political parties casting the highest and the next highest number of votes for governor in the last preceding state election.
(RSMo 1939 § 3747, A.L. 1945 p. 1996, A.L. 1951 p. 611, A.L. 1955 p. 599, A.L. 1957 p. 530, A.L. 1959 S.B. 209, H.B. 93 § 287.610, A.L. 1961 p. 428, A.L. 1963 p. 411, A.L. 1965 p. 419, A.L. 1967 p. 392, A.L. 1971 S.B. 190, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1260, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1396, A.L. 1981 H.B. 324, A.L. 1984 S.B. 528, A.L. 1987 H.B. 564, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al., A.L. 2005 S.B. 1 & 130)
Prior revision: 1929 § 3357
Effective 1-01-06
*Revisor's Note: Salary adjustment index is printed, as required by § 105.005, in Appendix E.
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