Daschle staffers to get severance

Rapid City Journal.com ^ | 12/02/2004 | Denise Ross

[sergeantdave]

You're right. I should have kept my mouth shut. Members of congress or their staff shouldn't get golden parachutes unless they're willing to take gunfire.

[MeekOneGOP]

You won't have me to kick around anymore . . .

[WildTurkey]

I believer there is a federal law that states companies must give a minimum of 60 days severance pay?

No.

[rjrad]

Liberals hanging their head in shame... Not in my lifetime.
(They invented this stuff).

[Wristpin]

Now I understand why the French guillotined the monarchy.

[glorgau]

Hey, what do the Senators care? It's not like it's their money they are spending.

[PeterFinn]

"Daschle staffers to get severance"

Is there any way we can arrange for that to be an Iraqi-style severance package?

[stevefromcalifornia]

I'm going to be sick...

[rjrad]

Maybe just once the French got something right.

[IronJack]

One last mouthful at the public trough ...

[El Gato]

Under the resolution, such severance pay will be granted in the future to the staff members of defeated senators.

Gosh at least they could have limited it to defeated Senators in leadership positions. They do have extra staff beyond what a "regular" senator would have.

I wouldn't give any of them anything. They have plenty of advance notice. Months. That's way more notice than I got when I got Clintonsized back in '98. I got a few hours notice. (I did get a small severance package, in lieu of notice, and a longer extension of pay and benefits in return for agreeing not to sue for age discrimination, I'd worked at the company and it's predecessor for 21 1/2 years.)

[El Gato]

On the other hand, I would expect any employee who is laid off (or terminated due to lack of work) to get some sort of severance.

The law only requires severance pay in lieu of notice, and even then only if it's significant change in employment level. If there some minimum (30 or 60 days?) notice, then no severance is required. Many companies elect to give pay instead, fearing sabotage and the chilling effect on the moral of those not laid off of having them around for such a period of time.

[El Gato]

I believer there is a federal law that states companies must give a minimum of 60 days severance pay?

That only applies if there is a signifcant change in employement at a given location and actually requires 60 days notice of such change, or some combination of severance and notice to total 60 days.

[verifythentrust]

I remember when Carol Mosely Braun or was it Sheila Mars Lee took the limo the three blockes to her office.

I don't object to Byrds limo, because it keeps one old senile fool from endangering the populace. From a physical standpoint anyway.

[Dog Gone]

That should have been why can't Byrd drive his own butt around in his own vehicle?

The guy can barely drool without assistance.

[conshack]

Sad, sad, sad. Liberals everywhere should be hanging their heads in shame.


Dan, Sorry to inform you of this, but liberals are incapable of expressing shame.

[LibertarianInExile]

You must be one of those anti-Bush bastards who hate the GOP. /sarcasm

[nmh]

Is this customary?

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

80 employees?????????????????????????

To do what? And isn't that about half the population of SD?

[conshack]

Daschle staffers to get severance"

Is there any way we can arrange for that to be an Iraqi-style severance package?


So, that means our men in uniform should get a severence when they separate, right?