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More stories about Benefits

  • The Big Chill

    DOWN, BUT NOT OUT: Wages may be frozen, but the public sector is still perceived as providing better benefits than the private sector.

  • Funding employee retirement benefits

  • Unions are surprisingly cooperative when faced with potential pandemic

    Early on, medial experts thought the H1N1 virus that's killed almost 1,500 people worldwide originated in Wisconsin.

  • Are Benefits Still the Icing on Your Cake?

    From doing more with less to paying more for less, public works professionals sound off about the rising cost of benefits.

  • Crash Course

    Driver and vehicle safety are more than personnel issues. Effective safety programs lower insurance premiums and raise public opinion.

  • A Place to Call Home

  • Considering a Private Partner?

    Five steps to forming the right relationship for your community.

  • Are your benefits flying south?

    This year we reformulated our annual salary survey to learn what keeps you and your colleagues working. We included questions about benefits, job satisfaction, and what respondents would like to see more of in their jobs and their benefits packages. What we discovered may surprise you. . .

  • Learning Curve

    Once someone joins the Chesapeake Public Works Department, they never seem to want to leave. Of the 500 employees on staff, nearly 100 have been there 20 years or more. If you want to know why, ask Jerry Ivory.

  • Track Down Potholes

    Many municipal public works agencies know the benefits of having an automated vehicle location (AVL) system to monitor employee performance, improve operational efficiency, and increase public communication efforts. But another little-known benefit is being able to map the discrete locations of...