STATE: Government employees pile up vacation time, breaking rules and costing millions/NCTimes
February 28th, 2010http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_cd8d4091-4c7f-517b-8a79-bd045c843bf1.html?print=1
“This is part of the whole milieu of excess compensation packages in the public sector.” Jon Coupal, President, Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association
“When they cash out vacation days, state workers are effectively getting paid twice—once for the day they worked when they could have been on vacation and, when they retire, again for that vacation day they didn’t use.”
“Employees are paid for their cashed-out vacation at the salary they received when they left the state, meaning that the payments get more expensive for the state over time.”
“Public records suggest the state probably paid at least $100 million, and perhaps tens of millions more, to state employees who exceeded the 640-hour ceiling between 2006-2009, the period examined by California Watch.”
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There is nothing new under the sun. Unless boards become the “watch dogs” they are elected to be, the pay-outs continue and administrators are not accountable to the rules. Often administrators don’t educate boards to clearly understand the rules. Legislators benefit from the same mindset. Taxpayers lose.
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