article in today's crain's chicago business: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=7638
any projections on this?
excerpts follow:
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But John Challenger, head of the Chicago-based placement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said there were effects in the health care and municipal services. ``There is some scrambling going on out there. They are already short-staffed and are going to be in a tight spot,'' he said. [ . . . ]
Some companies and municipalities have elected to pay those activated the difference between their salaries and what they will be making while on active duty, Challenger said. That further strains budgets, especially in towns with falling tax revenues, and rules out finding a replacement in some cases.
``It's a matter of growing concern,'' said Gene Voegtlin, legislative counsel for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
``We started hearing this late last year, primarily in states where there is a heavy military presence — Georgia for instance — where police officers are in the Guard after serving in the military.'' [ . . . ]
Milwaukee-based Manpower Inc., which tracks the demand for temporary workplace hiring, also said the call-up impact has not yet made an inroad into its statistics. ---
this last point re: manpower i presume has to do with tracking an increased demand for temps to replace those called up.
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