Plenty of Overtime

The Westmoreland County (Penn.) 911 center has plenty of overtime, so much, in fact that some dispatchers are tripling their pay to almost $90,000 a year. A story in the Tribune-Review newspaper named dispatchers Michael Kelp, Timothy O’Donnell and other county workers who are working huge amounts of overtime. The dispatchers told the reporter they needed to work up to 1,200 extra hours a year (57% extra) to make ends meet. Comm center officials say they need to staff all shift, using just 46 employees out of 52 authorized positions. Read the entire story here.