• Baker administration offers buyouts to address $294M deficit

    The Baker administration is offering cash incentives to government employees to entice them to leave their jobs, in order to fix a mid-year $294 million budget shortfall.Executive branch workers eligible for retirement are being offered a one-time incentive of $15,000 to step down, while others would receive a $5,000 payment. Depending on how many employees take the buyout, the administration may consider layoffs. The offer to employees is on the table from Oct. 17 to Nov. 14.The shortfall was&h

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