Analysts, Workers See Crisis in Staffing Levels at State Agencies
By William F. Zorzi
January 17, 2018
Maryland government needs to fill more than 2,600 positions in its executive branch agencies – nearly half of them in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services – at a cost of more than $96 million, a new study recommends.
The study, by the Department of Legislative Services, a nonpartisan agency attached to the legislature, found more than 1,500 vacancies in 11 state agencies, which analysts maintain also require another 1,100 employee hires to bring them up to full strength.
The study and report, presented yesterday to the Senate and House of Delegates budget committees, is the culmination of a two-year examination of state agencies by DLS’s Office of Policy Analysis.
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