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overtime for County employees - kalakoa - 12-14-2017
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/progress-made-cutting-ot-county-projects-nearly-500000-reduction-still-track-pay-out
That's right, folks: $320M/year salary+benefits, hefty raises all around, but we still "need" another $14M in overtime.
"Most of it is the case of having more work than available people to do it," Kucharski said.
Maybe County should be hiring more people? Just a few more dollars on your property tax bill, right?
RE: overtime for County employees - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 12-14-2017
overtime for county employees, most notably in the police and fire departments
Don't get me wrong, I like the fire department as much as the next guy, but how do they get overtime? Their job requires a lot of waiting, and it seems that can be accomplished while on regular duty. Or do they drive to a fire on their regular shift, and then continue to put out the flames after they'd normally punch out?
Same with police. Does their ticket writing protocol which requires a full contingent of squad cars to pull over a scofflaw, and then, whoops, shoulda been back at the station to punch out, turn into overtime? Or are there not enough officers to fill in the schedule 24 hours a day should some officers fall ill or take vacation? (Sick days - $$$, Vacation time - $$$, and while you're away from your job and paid your fellow officers also receive Overtime - $$$?)
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