08-25-2010, 02:26 PM
If there is tons of overtime, the municipality should *possibly* hire more people at straight time. Easy to judge, or in the Forum Experts case, misjudge; much harder to base opinion on actual fact.
ah, that is where the beauty of our health care system comes into play - and some politics. as it is so expensive to pay for health care benefits of any employee, the city managers, mayors and financial directors feel that it is "less expensive" to allow the overtime hours with existing employees than hire additional and pay for their benefits as well.
ah, that is where the beauty of our health care system comes into play - and some politics. as it is so expensive to pay for health care benefits of any employee, the city managers, mayors and financial directors feel that it is "less expensive" to allow the overtime hours with existing employees than hire additional and pay for their benefits as well.