States focus on retaining, hiring older workers

States focus on retaining, hiring older workers

California has a problem: Fifty-two percent of its managers in the state workforce could decide in the next five years that they're tired of working, grab their retirement packages and go. Their departure would create a serious brain drain for the state, which has the largest number of state employees in the country — 220,000.

So Jeff Douglas, California's chief of workforce development, is trying different tactics to keep senior workers on the job: offering a flexible work schedule, promoting work-life balance and creating the first government-wide employee management survey to assess the needs of workers. The idea is to find out who is leaving — and why.

Trump campaign delists white nationalist as delegate
Donald Trump

Trump campaign delists white nationalist as delegate

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign said a computer error resulted in a prominent white nationalist being mistakenly included on a list of his potential California delegates, an embarrassment for a candidate who has been criticized before for being too slow to distance himself from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

The campaign said in a statement Tuesday that the name has been withdrawn and a corrected list resubmitted to state officials.

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