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Administration pitches Municipal Empowerment Act to ease staffing shortages and study local OPEB liabilities
Summary
Administration witnesses asked the committee to advance parts of the Municipal Empowerment Act that would allow time-limited rehiring of retirees for positions designated as in critical shortage and would establish an OPEB commission to study the state's large post-employment health liabilities.
The Executive Office for Administration and Finance told the Joint Committee on Public Service that provisions in the Municipal Empowerment Act (sections referred to this committee) aim to give municipalities time-bound tools to address critical local staffing shortages while the administration works on longer-term recruitment pipelines.
Danielle Cerny and Sean Cronin described a proposed "critical shortage" designation, modeled on the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education process, that would allow a retired state or municipal employee to return to work without being…
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