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Thurston County staff outline personnel policy overhaul and communications reorganization
Summary
HR presented a package of personnel-policy updates including a new chief communications manager classification, elimination/reclassification of positions, a new laboratory technician classification, and repeal of a dated management pay plan.
Thurston County human-resources staff presented a package of personnel-policy changes and classification updates that county leaders said are intended to modernize recruitment, retention and internal equity.
HR Director Maria Pontiac and Compensation and Benefits Manager Tara Wiklendt briefed commissioners on three linked proposals: (1) create a new chief communications manager classification while eliminating one public information specialist position and reclassifying another; (2) create a laboratory technician classification by reclassifying an environmental health technician (no change in pay range); and (3) repeal the county’s Management and Technical Pay (MTP) plan…
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