HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County commissioners on Tuesday fired a longtime county employee without explanation. Katherine W. Swigart, who was hired in 2012, was terminated effective Monday based on the commissioners’ action and an email distributed Monday to county employees. Commissioner Laura Burke, liaison to the human resources department, said Tuesday that the county salary board […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County has replaced four box culverts on County Road 101 in Greenfield and Freedom townships, using revenue generated by the annual $5 fee paid by vehicle owners. Commissioner Amy Webster, during Tuesday’s commissioners meeting, encouraged residents using the road to notice the new pavement and enjoy it. She also pointed out that […]
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Kay Stephens
HOLLIDAYSBURG The Blair County board expected to address recommendations in an employee salary study is turning its attention toward developing a compensation policy.
The salary board, which scheduled a special meeting today to take action on study recommendations that could have meant pay raises for some employees, agreed Wednesday to keep the recommendations on hold pending development of a compensation policy.
A compensation policy, with rules or guidelines for hiring procedures, promotions, demotions and job transfers, will complement the salary study’s recommendations, Commissioner Bruce Erb said Wednesday when asking fellow salary board members to change the focus of today’s meeting.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County commissioners are considering a follow-up contract with East Coast Risk Management, the company that took much longer than anticipated to finish a salary study with recommendations not yet addressed.
“This is for work going forward,” Human Resources Director Katherine Swigart told commissioners Tuesday when she presented four job-related tasks that East Coast could handle.
Those tasks include updating the study’s pay scale report, at a cost of $140 per hour, reviewing and/or creating a job description, establishing a task-based value of each job title and assigning jobs to pay grades. For a task fitting into one of those three descriptions estimated at about 15 annually the county will pay $450 each under the proposal.