Posted on 06/27/2010 2:32:38 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Greg Royer ranks among the state's top-paid employees, with a salary of $304,000. But that's just part of his income. For nearly seven years, he's also collected an annual pension of $105,000.
Royer, the vice president for business and finance at Washington State University, tops a long list of college administrative staff members who've been able to boost their incomes by up to 60 percent by exploiting a loophole in state retirement laws.
A Seattle Times investigation has found that at least 40 university or community-college employees retired and were rehired within weeks, often returning to the same job without the position ever being advertised. That has allowed them to double dip by collecting both a salary and a pension.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Yeah, but it’s for the children. Move along now.
We do this all the time. It is cheaper for the state because the employees return as part-time wage employees which means “no benefits”.
I don’t know about what or where you’re describing, but it appears that the people described in this article are not only returning to the same positions full time, but some are getting a raise as well, on top of the “retirement” income.
Time to bail the state out, or their pensions will be cut.
That is illegal in our state. After retirement, workers cannot be rehired as full-time employees without their pension being put on hold. You cannot get paid out while you are working full-time.
And we sure wouldn’t want to see the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for these people.. ;)
We just went through a big flap here in Louisiana on this very issue.
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/sally-re-hired-herself/
Sally Re-hired Herself!
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/category/sally-clausen/
Apparently Oregon is unable or unwilling to make such a simple change in the law. They must be like Pelosi: “We’ll have to pass it to see what’s in it.”
This must be how the wealthy leftists deal with their own tax increases: another income from the state.
Ain't tyranny grand! What ticks me off is they have the nerve to preach “morality” like it really means something to them!
Here in WV, judges retire and then run un-opposed for their old job a few months later.
I did like the last part of the first story:
Some of our earliest memories of news and political events was the 1959 mental breakdown of then Gov. Earl Long and the resultant national publicity it brought to our state. Only in Louisiana could a governor run the state from a mental hospital. It appears things have changed little since 1959.
We have a growing aristocracy of bureaucrats. They are telling us filthy capitalists to eat cake.
We have a growing aristocracy of bureaucrats. They are telling us filthy capitalists to eat cake.
In MA, when they talk about possible budget cuts, it’s always fire depts, police, and crucial day-to-day parts of education. Things that hurt. There is never any consideration given to reforming government pensions.
There in WV, Grand Kleagles retire, and then go to the US Senate for 51 years.
Which is why I started my newsblog and became a news reporter myself. I’m doing what I can now that I’m retired and have time to do it.
He Retired?!?!?!
I thought he just stopped goin’ to meetin’s.
Government employees continue to gang rape the American tax payer.
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