Private firm handles job services for Kansas
Source: By Bobbi Mlynar, Emporium Gazette (KS), 02:10 p.m., January 28, 2008
The state of Kansas expects to announce plans this afternoon about help that will be available to Tyson Foods workers who will be displaced when the slaughter division closes within the next 60 days.
...... Betty Senn, now director of the Emporia Convention and Visitors Bureau, formerly was manager of the Emporia and Paola job services centers. She was one of many state employees whose jobs were eliminated when the state ceded its operation of job services centers to Dynamic Educational Systems, a private business.
Senn was contacted this morning to gain information about what Tyson workers might expect in the way of hands-on assistance from the state. She emphasized that she is no longer a part of that system, but was willing to talk about services offered in similar situations in the past. She expects those types of services to continue.