Remember the rollbacks at the start of the Lemanu Talauega administration?
Senators have mentioned the rollbacks in their questioning of the pay raises for directors, deputy directors and staff of the Governor’s Office.
And when Human Resources Director Lynn Pulou Alaimalo appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee on Monday, they brought up the rollbacks again.
Shortly after being sworn in as Governor, Lemanu issued a memo to rollback all personnel actions for ASG employees from 2019 to 2020.
The personnel actions affected were mostly done during the 2020 gubernatorial campaign season.
Senators pointed out that some employees whose salaries were rolled back when the administration took office have complained that their salaries were reduced yet top leaders have received significant pay increases,
A report by the DHR Director at the time showed that 772 employees were affected.
Governor Lemanu did freeze the rollback of some employees but not others.
During the Senate’s review of pay increases which were made retroactive to January, Senator Malaepule Saite Moliga asked about the fairness of giving directors, deputies and Governor’s Office staff huge raises, while some employees who were affected by the roll back had not had their salaries restored.
Malaepule last year sponsored a resolution asking the Governor to revert the salaries of those affected to what they were before the rollback.
DHR Director Pulou Alaimalo assured the Senate that all employees who had their salaries rolled back are now earning higher salaries.
She said that DHR completed a review of salaries for The entire ASG workforce and all salaries have been increased.
She said this includes raising the pay of all minimum wage employees, and currently no one is making less than $15,000 a year.
Pulou-Alaimalo was asked to submit a report detailing the current salaries of those who were affected by the rollback.
