[bannie]

Feds must step in and stop this!

[CWOJackson]

This is a screwed up mess but there's something I don't understand:

"...repay the city their city salary or their military pay, whichever was less."

"...as much as $200,000."

For someone to earn $200,000 in military pay would take years.

[philetus]

1,600 city employees, mostly police officers."

So, most of them are legally armed in NYC?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Yep,,,Vets Screwed Again,,,What Else Is New ?,,,,
Started In 1946,,,,OLD NEWS.!

[Doctor Raoul]

At lot of employers make up the difference between the regular salary and military pay for those whose military pay is less. And those companies get hailed as heros.

I am very much pro-troop and on the basic facts, it looks like the city was trying to do the right thing. So "screwing the troops" might be a hasty call as I don't believe it was deliberate.

I hope this is resolved so that no troops loses a dime.

[CharlesWayneCT]

OK, the story says that they would return EITHER their city pay, OR their military pay, which ever was less.

How could ANY of them have been paid over $200,000 in MILITARY PAY?

I presume also that military pay is not taxed while they are in a war zone.

I do understand the complication of trying to figure out tax consequences, I presume that if you return pay you can file an amended tax return.

I think my employer has this same policy, they keep paying you but only the difference between your normal pay and the service pay. But they I think do it pretty much real-time so there isn't much adjustment needed.

[Shery]

OUTRAGEOUS!

[esarlls3]

Yet another job for the FairTax!

[AFreeBird]

As opposed to another company (sorry, I don't recall the name but there was a thread on it here) that paid the family of a guard/reservist, the difference between his military pay( less) and his job pay so the familiy suffered no loss during his deployment.

Bloomberg SUCKS!