Supreme Court allows prosecutor to count post-2009 regional work for higher basic pay step.

The Supreme Court resolved a legal question regarding the calculation of a prosecutor's basic pay step. The plaintiff, a prosecutor promoted in 2010, argued that work performed in a regional office before January 1, 2009, should count toward the five-year requirement for the fourth pay step. The court held that the statutory provision only permits counting periods where the basic pay in subsequent steps was already in effect, which began on January 1, 2009. Consequently, the court ruled that pre-2009 work does not qualify for this specific calculation method.