The North Dakota Monitor’s Jeff Beach is reporting this morning that 101 state employees in are taking buyouts.
The Monitor reports the buyouts are part of the state’s voluntary separation incentive program, launched earlier this year as officials prepared for tighter revenues tied in part to lower oil tax collections. Employees accepted into the program are being offered three months of wages and benefits if they leave state employment by August 31.
State officials have indicated some of the positions may be refilled at a later date. Fifty of the 101 approved buyouts are in Health and Human Services.
The buyouts represent about 1% of North Dakota’s nearly 10,000 non-university state employees.
You can read the full story this morning at NorthDakotaMonitor.com.
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