Evers Pays Do-Nothing Employees, Starves Unemployed

You were expecting something else?  Tokin'Tony just re-arranged State employment regs to pay State employees to sit at home and do NOTHING.

...Earlier this month, the state Department of Administration Division of Personnel Management notified the Legislature that Gov. Tony Evers had approved the emergency rule for limited term employees (LTEs). It creates a new limited exception that allows state agencies to approve LTEs to stay at home without working and without loss of pay during the pandemic. 

“For the exception to apply, the reason for absence must specifically be related to the pandemic, such as a situation where the employee’s continued presence at the worksite compromises the safety or security of the employee, other persons, the public or the worksite.”...

Of course there's more.

...The rule also provides pandemic-related benefits to state employees, such as sick time for public workers who contract COVID-19. The emergency rule creates a new limited exception that allows employees to use sick leave for the care of individuals … “regardless of whether they are sick or not.” LTEs can do so “for the necessary period of time” without receiving prior approval. So the government employees can use sick leave if they can’t find child care because of a school closure during the pandemic. ...

Now, then.  Why did the State pay contractors to hire 500 people to take Unemployment Comp claims when ALL THESE STATE EMPLOYEES are sitting on their asses at home--and being paid?

This is our (current) Governor.  Recall season commences very soon.