King County jails pay $103/hr due to labor shortage (salary, health care, money)

[ukrkoz]

Rantz: King County fired the unvaccinated, now pays $103 an hour to fix staffing crisis



https://mynorthwest.com/3315750/rant...affing-crisis/


After King County Executive Dow Constantine implemented a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on county workers, the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DAJD) lost over two dozen employees.
The staffing situation is now so dire that the county is paying some correctional officers over $100 an hour for overtime. And the county may still end up releasing criminals to alleviate the pressure on the detention facilities.
The county now offers 2.5 times a staff member’s base rate for overtime time worked. Correctional officers are paid on a 12-step graduated salary plan. If a top-step officer making $41.21 per hour volunteers for these shifts, they would make $103 per hour.
It’s a last-ditch, desperate move by a county that brought the crisis on itself when it fired some 35 staff members over the vaccine mandate.

[newtovenice]

Originally Posted by ukrkoz

Rantz: King County fired the unvaccinated, now pays $103 an hour to fix staffing crisis

https://mynorthwest.com/3315750/rant...affing-crisis/

After King County Executive Dow Constantine implemented a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on county workers, the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DAJD) lost over two dozen employees.
The staffing situation is now so dire that the county is paying some correctional officers over $100 an hour for overtime. And the county may still end up releasing criminals to alleviate the pressure on the detention facilities.
The county now offers 2.5 times a staff member’s base rate for overtime time worked. Correctional officers are paid on a 12-step graduated salary plan. If a top-step officer making $41.21 per hour volunteers for these shifts, they would make $103 per hour.
It’s a last-ditch, desperate move by a county that brought the crisis on itself when it fired some 35 staff members over the vaccine mandate.

So fire correctional officers and then release criminal because there aren't enough correctional officers?

More COVID Logic.

[ukrkoz]

Well, here's logic.
They fired a bunch of staff at wife's hospital and ICU. Not everyone got exemption.
Then, they hired a bunch of travel nurses, with base starting at around $100 an hour and benefits and such.
So yes, there apparently is some sort of logic in it.
My gut tells me, they, same applied for federal grants to "reduce covid impact" on KC jails and health care.
I have no doubt, no matter what they did on the surface, they got THEIR money under the surface.