LePage orders state government hiring freeze

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Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage has ordered a hiring freeze across the executive branch of state government “until further notice” in preparation for cuts he wants to make in a state budget proposal that’s due in January 2017.

Documents obtained Monday by the Bangor Daily News indicate that the hiring freeze was ordered in a July 18 memo to LePage’s top administrators.

“Beginning immediately, no positions will be posted by the Bureau of Human Resources, nor should they be posted by agencies electronically or in print,” reads the memo. “Positions that are already posted may be filled.”

In a July 18 email to a number of state employees, Joyce Oreskovich, director of the Bureau of Human Resources, wrote that “the governor will want to hear from commissioners if/when they want to fill any positions.” Italics appeared in the original email.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2016/08/01/politics/state-house/lepage-orders-state-government-hiring-freeze/

[TonyPDX]

1. I thought Mainers were smarter than this.

He's trying to turn Maine into Floriduh.