All East Baton Rouge city-parish employees are set to receive a raise soon, after the Metro Council approved a plan in a 10-1 vote Wednesday.
Employees will see at least a 3.5% increase in their paychecks, starting with their first paychecks in July.
The timing of the raise was spurred by Metro Council Democrats, who pushed for it in the name of fairness after the Baton Rouge Police Department received a historic pay raise in April…