June 13, 2008
Ohio: Amount of unpaid benefits remains unknown
The price tag for unpaid retirement benefits owed by Columbiana County for some former employees hired by the private jail operator in 1997 remains unknown as commissioners prepare for the 2009 tax budget hearing set for 10 a.m. July 9…
…On April 30, commissioners approved a consent judgment entry to settle a court action filed in January by four former employees who were laid off when the county privatized the jail and then rehired by CiviGenics, the private firm the county contracted to run the jail.
The employees claimed the county failed to pay into the public retirement system for their past, present and future time with CiviGenics as ordered by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System Board in November 2007…
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