Labette County commissioners on Tuesday agreed to accommodate hobbled county departments by paying employees for some unused vacation and allowing them to carry over any remaining after that. The accommodation is for this year only, commissioners said. The current policy is that county employees can carry 72 hours of unused vacation into the next year. The problem this year is that employees are leaving county jobs for other work and county departments are struggling to get enough applicants to fill vacancies, in part because of the lower wage offered for county work.
Source: Parsons Sun
