State DCFS racking up OT after layoffs
Posted November 18, 2008 10:00 pm
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services says it needs child-abuse investigators working overtime to make up for workers it lays off amid budget cuts.
The Associated Press has obtained an e-mail in which the child welfare agency also wrote that it will lose 27 of 39 investigators at its Maywood office to layoff or reassignment.
A spokesman for the workers' union called the action "nonsensical."
And the American Civil Liberties Union fears layoffs will increase workloads in violation of a court order.
A DCFS spokesman hasn't responded to requests for comment.
More than 300 state workers will be laid off Nov. 30 because of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's budget cuts.
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