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Iowa Judicial Branch announces staff cuts
Posted: 11.13.2009 at 8:08 AM
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DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- The Iowa Judicial Branch says it will lay off 105 employees, cut 100 vacant staff positions and reduce the hours of 58 of its employees in an attempt to help address the state's severe financial problems this fiscal year.
All told, the cuts announced Thursday amount to a 9.3 percent reduction in judicial branch work force. The new cuts are in addition to the ten days of court closures and unpaid leave for all judges, magistrates, and court employees announced earlier this week.
The total savings are projected to be $11.4 million, or 7.1 percent of the judicial branch's expenses.
The Iowa Judicial Branch endured two previous rounds of budget cuts this year.
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