The Saskatchewan government says a 3.5 per cent wage cut for MLAs will go ahead with or without a vote from the NDP.
The government is mandating the wage reduction for MLAs and cabinet ministers.
The NDP agreed to the cut for MLAs, but boycotted a committee vote because it wants cabinet ministers to take a bigger cut.
The Opposition also opposes the same wage cut for public sector workers.
Economy Minister Jeremy Harrison says the government is giving notice that it will change legislation to only need a majority vote.
Harrison says he hopes the NDP will vote so legislation is a last resort.
"We would be doing that just for a time-limited period and just to enact these changes and that would be the extent of it," Harrison said Thursday.
"I'm hoping the opposition are going to be agreeable to not forcing us to proceed with the legislative option but if they won't, this is what our alternative is."
Premier Brad Wall said earlier this week that the public sector wage cuts could save the government about $250 million.
He said the government won't prescribe any specific measures, such as forcing workers to take unpaid days off, adding the cuts will come through negotiations with unions.
Wall said that all MLAs and cabinet ministers will also take the salary cut. Staff in the premier's office, as well as ministers' offices, will take nine unpaid days off a year to reduce their pay by about 3.5 per cent.
Several hundred people held a rally Wednesday at the legislature to protest the cuts.
(CJME, The Canadian Press)
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version had the vote was for public sector workers' wages
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