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Effective July 1, the raise for promotion to tenured associate professor will increase from $2,000 to $6,500; the raise for promotion to full professor will increase from $3,000 to $10,500.
Supervisor Tom Patti will not be disciplined for findings he retaliated against a staffer, and the full report will not be released to the public.
Governor Reeves was joined by Attorney General Lynn Fitch as he signed HB 770. On Wednesday, Governor Tate Reeves signed the Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (House Bill 770), making Mississippi the last state to adopt an equal-pay protection law. The legislation is set to go into effect o
Camille Zapata, chief of staff to Supervisor Kathy Miller, lodged 20 complaints against Supervisor Tom Patti. The board will hear the report April 19.
Mississippi is the only state in the country without an equal pay law. Mississippi House and Senate both passed HB 770. The bill 1 requires employers to pay employees without regard to sex and 2 encourages equal pay for equal work.