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With Permanent Leadership And No Legislation, Ky. Labor Cabinet Merger Unlikely
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The merger proposal was presented as one possible antidote to the Labor Cabinet’s recent troubles.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/tag/david-dickerson/)
The merger proposal was presented as one possible antidote to the Labor Cabinet’s recent troubles.
Cabinet leaders said eliminating the Labor Cabinet would save money, streamline government and improve the functions of Kentucky’s Occupational Safety and Health agency, which has been under federal scrutiny since a critical audit released in August.
Kentucky pays its entry-level safety compliance officers less than any of the surrounding states, according to a KyCIR review of salary data.
The acting Labor Secretary wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in the Lexington newspaper that the “hard work of turning the program around is well underway.”