RIVERSIDE - The Board of Supervisors today unanimously directed the Riverside County Executive Office to proceed with establishing new workforce retention strategies based on concerns that county government is losing too many employees each year to other public sector entities.
County CEO Jeff Van Wagenen and his staff, in collaboration with the Department of Human Resources, introduced a set of proposed standards for the board to consider as a means of improving "recruitment, hiring and retention.''
The tentative framework was fleshed out following requests by Supervisors Kevin Jeffries and Karen Spiegel in May for the EO to assess how the county might modify its policies to attract and keep people on the payroll.
Van Wagenen said a new path forward is needed because the county is hemo
