Sentences with phrase «reduce judicial salaries»

The Ohio Senate yesterday approved a plan (SJR 1) to create a Public Office Compensation Commission with the power to reduce judicial salaries mid-term in cases of fiscal emergency, a departure from a 2014 proposal which would have allowed them to be diminished for any reason.

Not exact matches

By that logic, fewer judges would be needed to deal with more cases, reducing the cost of judicial salaries and pensions and the court estate.

Interestingly, and unlike a similar salary commission on the ballot in Arkansas in 2014, the Kentucky version retains the constitutional provision that protects a diminishment of judicial compensation («The compensation of a justice or judge shall not be reduced during his term.»)

Nearly every state has a constitutional provision related to judicial salaries and compensation, however they vary widely in terms of whether or not such items can be reduced or increased (as was the case in Arkansas for decades) and if so under what conditions.

This was in stark contrast with Arkansas» constitutional amendment creating a Commission - system approved by voters the month prior that reiterated that judicial salaries could not be reduced during terms of office.

(e) that the Government may not reduce the salaries, pensions or benefits of Judges, individually or collectively, without infringing the principle of judicial independence,