LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The federal authorities is shrinking, and that may be a possibility for Nevada state authorities to search out some skilled new workers.
Democratic Meeting Speaker Steve Yeager launched laws on Monday to verify the state provides federal workers honest credit score for his or her expertise, and even permits the state to waive a requirement for a bachelor’s diploma in some instances.
Meeting Invoice 547 (AB547) would make expertise within the federal authorities the identical as state expertise in figuring out pay ranges.
Yeager posted on X, “I am proud to introduce AB547 which will expand career opportunities for all Nevadans and ensure that former federal workers recklessly and indiscriminately fired by the Trump/Musk administration have job opportunities right here in Nevada. #NVLeg”
8 Information Now reached out to the Nevada Division of Employment, Coaching and Rehabilitation (DETR) on the finish of March for details about federal jobs within the state.
DETR’s chief economist, Dave Schmidt, stated federal employment in Nevada accounts for a bit of beneath 23,000 jobs within the state — smaller than the Clark County Faculty District’s workforce. Most of these federal jobs are with the Veterans Administration, the U.S. Postal Service and the Division of Protection.
The impression of the Trump administration’s cuts is not more likely to present up in unemployment statistics for six to 12 months, he stated.
