(Audubon) A change in policy will allow new employees in Audubon County to take more vacation days during their first year on the job.
Supervisors chairman Doug Sorensen believes this move will make Audubon County more attractive to potential new hires.
“Rather than having only one week of vacation plus a few personal days and that would accrue through the year, so if you started with Audubon County as it has always been it would take one year to accrue one week of vacation, well wee are going to let you go negative the first year. It’s kind of a hindrance to hiring. We will let you use your vacation before you earn it. If you actually left that would come out of your final paycheck.”
During Tuesday’s meeting the board also approved the hire of Todd Nielsen as a Grade 2 Classification Equipment Operator.
“We also hired Kyle Juelsgaard a week or two ago, so with those two hires we are now only one short on our Motor Grader Operators where we had been three short. So that situation is much improving.”
Sorensen says they have two applicants for the IT Director position. They are hoping to schedule interviews within the next week to ten days.
