Supervisors Suspend 60 CAO Pay Raises : Government: Molina, who called for the freeze, said other non-union personnel had not received similar increases.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to suspend a pay raise granted in July to 60 employees in the Chief Administrative Office.

Supervisor Gloria Molina, who authored the motion to suspend the raise, said other employees not represented by union contracts had not received similar pay increases.

Chief Administrative Officer Richard Dixon did not oppose the motion. Dixon argued that although the raises for the office’s management analysts were as high as 8%, the increases were analogous to those granted to 60,000 county workers represented by union contracts.

Dixon said that under a performance-based pay plan, some of the employees did not receive the increases while others’ pay was cut up to 2.5%

Molina said that while Dixon had the authority to grant the raises, he should have waited until the Board of Supervisors began its August budget deliberations. The county is facing a severe budget shortfall, and the Chief Administrative Office recommended in August that all county employees work two days each month without pay.

In another action, the board voted 3 to 2 to request that the Governing Board of the Air Quality Management District conduct an independent review of the district’s personnel practices.

It was reported last week that three federal agencies have decided to investigate allegations of job discrimination and reports of political espionage at the AQMD.