I was pleasantly surprised to see Ashley Gebb’s story on city employees’ accrued sick and vacation days turning into massive payments at lay-off time. Wow, at last the media is paying attention to these insane city contracts.
http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_24196124/layoffs-come-price-tag
Gebbs explains how employees accrue unused vacation and sick days, and then get paid for all these unused days when they leave. Think about that – they already got paid for those days. This system allows an employee to get paid twice for one work day. Chris Constantin makes it sound onerous – these people aren’t getting vacations! Hey, that’s their choice, and it works out pretty good for them if you ask me. Gebb’s reports that this round of layoffs cost over $80,000 in vacation and sick leave payments.
What Gebbs doesn’t mention is, those contracts are being hashed over right now, to be negotiated in December. It’s never too early to write to council and let them know just what you don’t like about the employee contracts. You can see those here:
http://www.chico.ca.us/human_resources_and_risk_management/labor_agreements_home.asp
I will bring copies of contracts to the next Chico Taxpayer’s meeting so we can discuss a list of items we can forward to council. The next CTA meeting is postponed to the Second Sunday in October, the 13th.
Chico Taxpayers Association 