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Metro Government Prepares for 200 Job Cuts - Sky Arnold
200 Metro Employees are about to lose their jobs.
The question is how many of them will actually continue working with Metro Government anyway. The Department of Human Resources is trying to match those 200 employees with empty positions in city government.
"I'm confident that we'll be able to place the majority of our employees. My goal is that we place all employees," said Human Resources Director Dot Berry.
Wednesday night Berry told a group of Metro Council Members she's found jobs for as many as 60 employees.
Berry's department is still gathering information on what jobs will be eliminated. She says as of now she doesn't believe those lay offs will include any of the top 200 wage earners.
Among the top earners, many work for Nashville Electric Service. Fox 17 reviewed the list of top earners and found 9 of the top 17 all work for the utility, including NES President Decosta Jenkins who earns more than 257-thousand dollars a year.
NES spokesperson Laurie Parker says the salaries came from a study the department recently conducted that compared salaries of similar positions in other cities.
"These salaries are not pulled out of thin air," said Parker. "Chances are if someone here wanted to find a higher paying job elsewhere they could do it, but we do have to try to keep things as competitive as we can within reason."
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