For The Record, I Think This Is A Stupid Idea
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So you know how all the school boards payout work do you? Don't forget this is lala land where government employees truly believe Nirvana is their right. Do you even know how your own works?
Perhaps not here any more here either but they did and for the most part they still get far better than any private sector unions and orders of magnitude better than any non union employee or self employed that pay the bills.
Taxslave is just jealous because loggers are at the bottom end of the pay scale and it is a very hazardous job. It's not the fault of government workers that TS is not doing well. Perhaps he could have stayed in school or moved to Alberta if more money was his goal. I make half of what I did in the private sector. I took the job because my wife was sick and I wanted to be around for the kids. They graduate next year and I'm already getting the feelers out for a move back to the private sector. The only real benefit I can say my job gives me is being home every night and because it's not a regular 9-5 job, I have flexibility when it comes to family (which is what I was looking for). The kids played basketball at noon on Friday so I took some time off and and worked yesterday and this morning.
Just looked up the current contract for school district 69 employees. Currently they get paid out for 90 days sick leave upon retirement.
Actually I do quite well. I just resent my tax money being wasted. But hey if you socialists don't mind government employees getting your hard earned money for nothing who am I, a mere fiscal conservative to argue with those that wish to bankrupt the country.
School board employees also get 1 month severance pay on retirement. Making a total of about 5 1/2 months pay for leaving.
Actually I do quite well. I just resent my tax money being wasted. But hey if you socialists don't mind government employees getting your hard earned money for nothing who am I, a mere fiscal conservative to argue with those that wish to bankrupt the country.
School board employees also get 1 month severance pay on retirement. Making a total of about 5 1/2 months pay for leaving.
I don't know where your quote came from, it wouldn't link but that is about 2 months pay.
WHo is the clown that wrote the article? Looks like a wimp to me. Kind of guy that has to hire someone to change a light switch in his basement suite.
Of course we could always compare pay stubs and then you would know how much it costs those of us that work to carry your pathetic azz.
You'll excuse me if I believe the government figures over some bitter logger on a web forum.
I guess if you can't really argue the statistics, calling the article's author a wimp is probably the best one could ask of you.
Well we could but that wouldn't really be fair as I have marketable skills and live in Alberta so it wouldn't really be a fair comparison
I think banked sick leave is bullsh*t. Paid sick leave is questionable. I would fully agree with paid sick leave if the employee paid a few cents insurance premium for it out of each cheque. The consumer shouldn't be getting dinged for it. Back in the 60s as I said earlier we got 15 days S.L. per year which could be banked up to a max. of 250 days of which 125 were paid out. I think the philosophy at that time was gov't employee's wages were about 10% behind the private sector and it was a way of closing the gap. A smart bureaucrap would have just paid them the same in the first place and saved a whole pile of useless f**King bookkeeping!
What some people fail to understand is that labor is a commodity and benefits are part of labour costs. It really makes no difference whether a employer gives short term disability, allows banked time or deducts pay from the workers pay for a sick time fund. Whatever works for the employer and whatever they need to do to attract decent workers, they will do. If you don't have a good wage or decent benefits to offset the lower wage, it's because the employer doesn't need to do it.
Where I work, wages and benefits are far too low. That is self evident because when whenever they advertise for a position few, if any, apply. We were recently looking for a class 1 truck driver and we had one applicant who was 69 and had a bad back. Clearly they aren't paying enough.
Where I work, wages and benefits are far too low. That is self evident because when whenever they advertise for a position few, if any, apply. We were recently looking for a class 1 truck driver and we had one applicant who was 69 and had a bad back. Clearly they aren't paying enough.