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Florida Department Of Corrections Cuts 190 Jobs
June 4, 2011
The Department of Corrections notified 190 temporary trainee employees that they won’t be hired permanently as part of the agency’s effort to reduce costs.
The move will produce $8.8 million in savings, department spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said. The agency notified the trainees that because of legislatively mandated consolidation of some DOC facilities and extensive privatization also required by the new budget that will go into effect July 1.
The trainees’ employment was terminated Friday, the department said.
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6 Responses to “Florida Department Of Corrections Cuts 190 Jobs”
DOC required these saleries to pay for those free drug cards!
Yea, Rick Scott has no business sense, he needs to cut pay and jobs at the Tallahassee level instead of cutting jobs for the low income, The Department of Correction officers make only $30.000 a year and now there taking a pay cut of %3 and now there going to make only $29,000. a year, yea the %3 percent is going into there retirement but why the state can’t manage the retirement fund now let alone give them our hard earned money so they can mismanage that too. We are not given a choice on how that money is going to be invested so you might as well count on that money being gone when we do retire from DOC.
Get the kids in the house and lock the doors,
Sure, save 8mil there by cutting employment and putting more on unemployment, food stamps, and welfare. Sheesh.
Privatization!, low bids, sounds like a recipe to me.
That’s ok. Several liberal judges across the state daily are slapping convicted offenders on the wrist and letting them back on the streets.
Case in point: the convicted guy who was drunk and killed two people and only got a one year suspended sentence. Oh yeah he also lost his driving rights. Like that’s going to keep him from driving.