Public employees are the backbone of local communities, serving as teachers, firefighters, police, EMTs, park employees – but when it comes to retirement security, the playing field is not level for public employees.
Without these public sector workers, no town, city or county can function. ICMA-RC is advocating for changes at both the federal and state level that will make it easier for public employees to save for retirement – and bring them into parity with employees at private sector companies.
This includes expanding access to collective investment trusts (CITs) and broadening the application of automatic enrollment.
Find out more about the challenges – and the work done to date at https://www.napa-net.org/sites/napa-net.org/files/PDFs/NNTM_FALL19_ICMA-RC_ExecutiveInterview.pdf.
