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Noble County council debates wages and a possible HR function to tackle recruitment and retention
Summary
Council members and department heads spent the bulk of the meeting debating recruitment and retention challenges in the highway and public-safety departments, comparing pay and benefits with neighboring counties and considering an HR office or external wage study to standardize job classifications and stipends.
The Noble County council spent much of its Dec. 1 meeting on concerns about recruitment and retention, particularly in the highway and public-safety departments, and on whether the county should create a centralized human-resources function or hire an outside consultant to conduct a wage study.
Highway representative (Speaker 7) told the council that pay and job classifications have not been professionally updated in more than a decade and described hiring challenges for CDL operators and other…
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