most courthouse employees work an estimated seven hours a day, five days a week, officials say. Blum said his proposal is to reduce the schedule to four days a week, but increase the hours worked to eight hours a day. This would minimize the impact to employees, and ensure they still qualify for benefits, Blum said.
“It would only reduce the employee work week by three hours,” Blum said.
Making such a change would reduce the county’s labor costs by 9 percent, saving anywhere from $100,000 to $150,000….
County Board approved a 2009-2010 general fund budget with a roughly $400,000 deficit late last year. If you couple the existing deficit with the negative cash flow, the county may be looking at a deficit in the range of $800,000 for the fiscal year 2010-2011 budget, Blum said.
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