SEANC director Ardis Watkins on NC’s chronic public employee shortage and pending state budget

<br /> Among the many vexing challenges facing state government agencies in North Carolina these days is this: finding and keeping qualified workers. Across the state, job vacancies and turnover are extremely high. Even when agencies find good people, keeping them from departing for better paying jobs in the private sector is often impossible. Fortunately, the causes of (and solutions to) this problem are no particular mystery. As NC Newsline’s Rob Schofield learned in a conversation with the executive director of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, Ardis Watkins, the need for better state employee pay is painfully obvious and the state has cash available to make a big dent in the problem. The post SEANC director Ardis Watkins on NC’s chronic public employee shortage and pending state budget appeared first on NC Newsline.