Hays childcare workers left behind in pay equity

By Andy Sevilla

Hays CISD childcare workers complain they were left out of the latest round of pay increases, despite the issuance of at least 1.5 percent pay jumps for all other district employees last summer.

“We recently learned that as an employee group we were ineligible to receive the 1.5 percent increase that all other non-teaching employees received,” Marie Jones, director for the Early Learning Center at Buda Elementary told school board members at a February meeting. “I don’t understand that at all.”