I am looking for honest opinions and do not want this to turn into a tangent on teachers as that is not what I am looking for. My question is: If you work for Anderson County and are being paid with tax dollars from taxpayers of this county should you have to be a resident of Anderson County? We talk about the plants and hoping the companies out there would strongly suggest our county, what about our county itself?
Personally I like the idea that a teacher should live in the city/county where they are employed, but I'm not sure it could be mandated. ORS seems to have some confusion about their policy.
I am not talking about teachers, I am talking about county employees.
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Sorry E1, I did read your post and then evidently had a brain fart.
Yes.
No. A person should be able to live wherever they choose.There are exceptions, depending on a person's level of responsibility, which may require them to be fairly close to the workplace in order to respond to certain events.
If an employer has reasons to value the residential location of employees, it can add them to the mix of job requirements. If the reasons are arbitrary, they may be successfully challenged.
If an employer has reasons to value the residential location of employees, it can add them to the mix of job requirements. If the reasons are arbitrary, they may be successfully challenged.
Other than for a handful of positions that require emergency response within a short period during off hours, all the others are arbitrary. Regardless of the reasoning, the net effect is that some qualified applicants/employees will quit rather than move since jobs are more transitory now anyway and there are lots of reasons why they may be reluctant to pull up and move 15 miles just for some government job which doesn't pay that well anyway.
Oh no, there are many valid reasons for residency. They just have to be tied to the job. Distance/time to respond often will not cause someone to live in a certain jurisdiction, just nearby.
If a job does not pay enough to attract qualified applicants, the market will deal with it.
Putting Anderson county aside for a moment, think about how a residency requirement for OR city and OR schools employees would affect us. A significant percentage of both, choose to not live in OR.
Just a thought.
Before Askwhy hijacks this thread also let me put it back on topic. I view this from a completely different perspective. If you are working for an elected official in the county and you are an at will employee then the elected official and his/her employees are accountable to the voter/taxpayer of the county. Therefore, all should be a resident of that county. There are enough qualified people in this county who are without a job. We need to take care of our own first and worry about the others later.
Askwhy: Please take your concerns to the proper topic either Oak Ridge Schools or Local Politics.
Valid residency requirements have a very positive side. If we can enforce them and get quality employees, then we have done what is necessary to mold our community into a place where people would want to live.