A member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives said he plans to introduce legislation that would set a $15-an-hour minimum base pay for state-financed higher education employees, revise unemployment compensation for teachers and professors of state-funded higher education institutions, and other provisions for full-time and part-time educators in higher education.

In the memo issued by Rep. Christopher M. Rabb, D-Philadelphia, he outlines two bills he is set to propose to address educators and other employees in higher education institutions. Under his proposed legislation, part-time and other nontenure-track faculty would be paid wages “equal, on a pro rata basis” to the pay of full-time tenure and tenure-track faculty.

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