NEBRASKA'S UNIQUE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE WAGE SETTING MECHANISM: SOME CLARIFICATIONS OF PURSELL AND TORRENCE

JOHN M. GRADWOHL

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DOI: 10.2190/G845-02M2-HYN4-5DAD

Abstract

Unlike interest arbitration statutes, Nebraska's public employment bargaining impasse law establishes wages and conditions of employment under judicial rules applying a single standard of the comparative overall compensation of similarly skilled and similarly employed workers. Financial considerations are not a part of the Nebraska impasse resolution formula. The Pursell and Torrence article is especially significant in its finding that the single work skills comparison standard, without an element for budgetary implications, may have "disrupted" Omaha's budgetary processes to some extent but without "substantial erosion of city control over budgets."

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