{"id":5098,"date":"2011-11-22T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T12:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2011-11-22T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:40:01","slug":"morning-read-seeking-job-cuts-essex-county-looks-to-non-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/22\/morning-read-seeking-job-cuts-essex-county-looks-to-non-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Seeking job cuts, Essex County looks to non-residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Essex County looks to cut 12 to 25 jobs from its employment rolls this year, elected leaders say the first place they&#8217;ll look is to non-resident workers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1022082950\/Essex-County-may-weed-out-non-resident-workers\">This from the Plattsburgh Press-Republican.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employees of Essex County who live elsewhere without permission could soon be without jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In  light of possible upcoming layoffs, on Monday, the County Board of  Supervisors Personnel and Administration Committee directed County  Personnel Officer Monica Feeley to investigate reports of non-residents  working for the county.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1022082950\/Essex-County-may-weed-out-non-resident-workers\">Lohr McKinstry&#8217;s article<\/a>, county workers who live outside Essex County&#8217;s boundaries &#8212; in neighboring Clinton, Franklin or Warren counties, most likely &#8212; need a waiver to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>County officials suggest that some workers may be gaming the system by renting PO boxes in Essex County to receive their paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Does it make sense for a county like Essex to require that all its workers be residents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Essex County looks to cut 12 to 25 jobs from its employment rolls this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,10,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}