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They Game The System. You Lose
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If you want an example of why people get so upset with public employee unions, take the example (likely apropos everywhere) of California, where public employees can pile up unused vacation and sick days and get paid for them in a lump sum at retirement, and then have their pension based on that one-time salary spike. So someone making, say, $50,000 a year can in the last year cash in all that time and make $80,000, and the pension gets set based on that $80,000 figure, not the average salary he or she really made all that time. And you wonder why practically every state in the union is in financial trouble. (Los Angeles Times)
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