LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Workforce development officials joined Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday to announce an extensive Arkansas program to provide job training. Arkansas Department of Commerce Secretary Hugh McDonald said the grants will provide $48 million in workforce training in grants to 19 Arkansas organizations.

The Republican governor detailed the planned overhaul, which she said will be part of the balanced budget proposal she’s scheduled to make to lawmakers later this month.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced a restructure of the state’s pay plan for its employees across all agencies Tuesday. The overhaul will raise some salaries to labor market rates, clarify the promotion ladders in each agency and consolidate roughly 2,

The governor announced an overhaul of the employee pay plan. Sanders said the new plan will streamline career tracks, consolidate job titles, and increase state employee pay to labor market rates. Arkansas Gov.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of the state's pay plan for more than 22,000 executive branch employees with a projected price tag of about $102 million a year.

Average salaries would increase 9.8% for 14,539 state employees, or about two-thirds of cabinet agencies’ total workforce, under a $102 million state employee pay plan announced Tuesday (Nov. 12)