Over 500 County Employees Eligible for “Premium Pay”

Nearly three-quarters of $1 million dollars in American Recovery Plan money allocated to Oconee County is on its way to hundreds of county workers who stayed on the job during the first year of the pandemic.

At the request of County Administrator Amanda Brock, last night the county council agreed to consider an ordinance, to be devised by the county attorney, that will award $1.7 million nearly 550 county employees what’s called “premium pay” as defined in allowable expenditures in the ARP Act…

Brock said that out of the 544 workers in line for the premium pay, 417 are considered “essential employees”; 127 are defined as secondary workers. She told the council that those employees who worked from their homes during 2020 are ineligible for the compensation.