Posted on 04/20/2011 8:35:02 PM PDT by matt04
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Convicted former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez is seeking more than $130,000 in unused sick and vacation time.
Bart Halloran, Perez's attorney, has sent to Hartford's director of human resources asking the former mayor be paid for 1,200 hours of unused vacation and 768 of unused sick time.
Perez was convicted of using a city contractor to have free work done at his home and could be going to prison.
The former mayor's criminal conviction doesn't change the fact he was a city employee, said Saundra Kee Borges with the city's Corporation Counsel.
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And yet, in a sane world, It seems that it should.
Dismassal for cause usually means loss of all accrued vaction in the non-government sector.
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