Deadline approaching for NHC employees

The deadline is fast approaching for New Hanover County employees looking to volunteer to take early retirement.

The county manager met with department heads on Friday. The county is asking eligible employees to step forward and volunteer for early retirement. This includes any and all county employees, including members of New Hanover County law enforcement agencies.

If not enough choose this option, the county will go forward with a lay off plan.

“If no one takes advantage of this, we’ll have to look at the furloughs, and possibly layoffs just to get our budget in line,” said NHC Commissioner Jason Thompson.

County employees have until February 27th to decide.