Tuesday, December 19, 2006

WSI woes...

Via The Forum...

Turmoil at WSI is serious
Lloyd Omdahl, The Forum


Problems in the state Workforce Safety & Insurance have boiled over again, with the state auditor’s office reeling off a series of indictments and scores of legislators calling for the agency director’s head in a basket. If the auditor’s report is to be believed, this time the issue is the morale of the agency employees.

Sandy Blunt is the fourth director of this troubled agency since it was removed from the jurisdiction of the governor and placed under the 11-member Workforce Safety & Insurance Board in 1997. The bipartisan legislation providing for the change was vetoed by Gov. Ed Schafer but both houses of the Legislature overrode his veto with huge margins.

Read on...
|