The school district's principals and other administrators won't get raises this year after all. ...more

February 5, 2009

School administrators and the district's professional and technical staff will likely receive a modest cost of living raise this year. ...more

January 21, 2009

Cheryl Marsden spent much of her first day on the job as Hernando County's human resources director making the rounds of county government. ...more

November 13, 2008

School bus drivers, cafeteria workers and other school support staff workers are slated to receive a small pay raise under a tentative contract agreement. ...more

September 26, 2008

Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee no longer has to sit down at a bargaining table to determine his deputies' salaries. ...more

May 24, 2008

With a vote of 449 to 137, Hillsborough's detention deputy chapter of the West Central Florida Police Benevolent Association has dropped the union as its representative for collective bargaining, said the union's executive director, Jim Diamond. ...more

May 23, 2008

The Hernando County School Board voted 4-1 Tuesday to give Superintendent Wayne Alexander a 5.5 percent pay raise. ...more

May 21, 2008

A&E Interlocking Pavers Inc. of Hernando County will have to wait a month to find out if it can store its paving equipment in Brooksville. ...more

February 17, 2008

Newly hired Hernando County Administrator David Hamilton will start his new duties even sooner than expected. ...more

February 13, 2008

SEBRING — One school bus driver hopes the district's support workers vote down the tentative contract agreement Sunday so a better salary increase can be negotiated. According to the School Board of Highlands County, the tentative agreement reached Nov. 9 calls for an average salary increase of 4 percent and a total salary and benefit package increase of 5.86 percent. According to the tentative agreement, each pay step will increase by 2 percent. Each year everyone moves up a step, except the senior employees, who have reached the top pay step. About one-third of the 700 support staff are at the top of the salary schedule and will be getting a 2 percent raise. "When we vote on our contract, we are voting on a 2 percent increase — period," said Mary Hein, a bus driver. "We are not voting on 4 percent. It would be nice if they increased my step by 4 percent, but they are not." The substitute drivers would only get a 2 percent raise because their pay is solely based on hourly salary, she said. ...more

November 28, 2007