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County may do away with workers' comp time

Butler County employees may not be able to take comp time off any more.

Instead they’ll get more overtime pay.

The county commissioners will vote Wednesday on doing away with time off as an alternative to paid overtime for county workers.

At the commissioners meeting this morning, Commissioner Dale Pinkerton, who is proposing the move, said it’s necessary to keep county departments staffed, and he believes workers need the extra money rather than time off.

“We don’t have a department in our county that isn’t saying ‘we need more people’,” Pinkerton said. “To just give people all the time off ... hurts our county and hurts our departments.”

Commissioner William McCarrier said that the county’s human services department, which has about 100 employees, and the Children and Youth Agency, which is staffed at all times, are two departments that struggle in particular with scheduling. However, the issue arises in all county offices, he said.

“There are times when we don’t have enough people to staff a department,” McCarrier said.

Commissioner Jim Eckstein is opposed to the idea and said eliminating comp time would be “taking a step back,” for county employees who use the time to attend family events.

Eckstein said he wants to leave the choice between overtime pay and comp time up to department heads and their employees.

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