Gov. Wolf eliminating 'thousands' of unfilled state jobs
Gov. Tom Wolf's administration is moving to eliminate thousands of unfilled positions in state government as Pennsylvania faces a large budget deficit, officials said Friday.
The Wolf administration told cabinet agencies in a memo obtained by The Associated Press that it is effectively limiting the size of the state workforce to the number of positions now filled, and it will put money currently allocated to fill those positions into reserve.
Wolf's press secretary, Jeff Sheridan, said the decision will affect thousands of positions. However, Sheridan said he was not authorized to give a more precise number of positions eliminated, how each agency would be affected or say how much money the move would save.
There are about 73,000 filled salaried positions under the governor's jurisdiction, Sheridan said, and the administration's move seems to ensure that a state workforce that has been shrinking steadily from about 80,000 a decade ago will continue to do so.
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