Full-time workers in a public administrator's office are treated as county employees for things like hiring, retirement, and benefits. Workers in St. Louis City are treated as city employees instead. A public administrator who handles 50 or more cases can have full-time staff whose pay comes from the county or city.
473.775. Staff to be county employees — full-time staff may be provided for certain . — 1. Any full-time staff of any 's office employed on or after January 1, 2001, who is not an employee of the county for purposes of hiring, retirement, benefits and other laws applicable to county employees shall be deemed an employee after January 1, 2001. Any full-time staff of the office of the public administrator for the city of St. Louis on or after January 1, 2001, shall be considered an employee of the city of St. Louis for purposes of hiring, retirement, benefits and other laws applicable to the city of St. Louis employees.
2. Each public administrator with fifty or more cases may be provided with full-time staff paid for by the county or for St. Louis City, paid for by the city of St. Louis.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2000 S.B. 542 § 1)
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