Post by CC on Oct 2, 2009 5:43:42 GMT -5
Furlough exemptions extended
By sfgate.com
Published: 10/01/2009
Nevada correctional officers were granted another temporary exemption Wednesday from state mandated furloughs.
The Board of Examiners, chaired by Gov. Jim Gibbons, extended the exemption through November to give legal staff and prison administrators more time to research possible options on how to pay for continued waivers.
Department of Corrections Director Howard Skolnik has said requiring correctional officers to take one day off a month without pay would further strain his understaffed agency and jeopardize staff and inmate safety.
He said several options are being considered, including charging rent for prison stores, closing two conservation camps, closing one housing unit at the aging Nevada State Prison in Carson City, eliminating a 5 percent salary incentive for uniformed staff at outlying prisons in Ely and Lovelock, and leasing the Southern Nevada Correction Center.
Nevada lawmakers, trying to cope with a huge revenue shortfall, required state workers to take one day off each month without pay starting in July, amounting to a 4.6 percent pay cut.
By sfgate.com
Published: 10/01/2009
Nevada correctional officers were granted another temporary exemption Wednesday from state mandated furloughs.
The Board of Examiners, chaired by Gov. Jim Gibbons, extended the exemption through November to give legal staff and prison administrators more time to research possible options on how to pay for continued waivers.
Department of Corrections Director Howard Skolnik has said requiring correctional officers to take one day off a month without pay would further strain his understaffed agency and jeopardize staff and inmate safety.
He said several options are being considered, including charging rent for prison stores, closing two conservation camps, closing one housing unit at the aging Nevada State Prison in Carson City, eliminating a 5 percent salary incentive for uniformed staff at outlying prisons in Ely and Lovelock, and leasing the Southern Nevada Correction Center.
Nevada lawmakers, trying to cope with a huge revenue shortfall, required state workers to take one day off each month without pay starting in July, amounting to a 4.6 percent pay cut.