Thursday, October 4th, 2007...5:36 am
Gov. Palin’s Executive Branch Working Group
Governor Sarah Palin has tasked an Executive Branch Working Group with presenting recommendations by November 1st on the recruitment and retention of Executive Branch employees, especially professionals. According to her Administrative Order 237, turnover is up, many vacancies attract fewer than five qualified applicants, and a sizeable fraction of current employees will soon reach retirement age.
Palin’s Order is the subject of a critical OpEd piece by APEA Field Representative Jim Orr in Saturday’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Orr argues that the finding the source of the problem doesn’t require much study - it lies in “substandard wages, increasing health care costs, a gutted retirement system and the continued treatment of public employees as expendable.”
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