The Arizona Industrial Commission will hold a public hearing to discuss regulations that tie annual changes in benefits to changes in a federal cost index.Lawmakers in 2012 passed House Bill 2368 requiring that increases to maximum benefits be based on changes in the Employment Cost Index maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, rather than on changes in the state’s mean wage.The commission is proposing a rule that would specify that benefit changes be based on adjustments in the “Wages and Salaries for Civilian Workers, by Occupational Group and Industry” section o...
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