Imposing a salary (wage and compensation) freeze on government (public) employees, requiring freeze to include cost-of-living adjustments (COLA), across-the-board, longevity (seniority) and step and lane increases, lump sum payments, deferred compensation plan employer contribution increases and pay grade adjustments, exception for contracts or collective bargaining agreements in effect, prohibiting new contracts, collective bargaining agreements and salary rate increases, specifying voidability of certain contracts and retroactivity, prohibiting arbitration and strikes, defining government employee to include state (executive, legislative and judicial branches), regional, local government unit, Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU), school district, and municipal employees; specifying supersession to other law; recommending a salary freeze for university of Minnesota (U of M) employees; providing an expiration date
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