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What Fiscal Crisis? What
Shared
Sacrifice? Malloy Aides and Senior Managers Get Full
Longevity Payments. Hartford
Region September 29, 2011
Malloy’s
high ranking, non-unionized political appointees and other senior
managers will
get full longevity bonuses after all.
According
to
a breaking story just posted to CTMirror -http://ctmirror.org/story/14055/thousands-non-union-workers-receive-longevity-bonuses-next-month –
The Malloy Administration will be sending out full longevity bonuses to
about
3,500 senior state managers including people on the Governor’s staff,
over 60
high-ranking officials and employees in the Governor’s Office of Policy
and
Management and a number of his Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and
other
top political appointees.
The
Malloy/SEBAC “shared sacrifice” agreement was all about putting an end
to what
Malloy called the state’s unsustainable compensation and benefits
program for
state employees.
In
addition
to the wage freeze, all union employees with at least 10 years of state
service
who serve in “capped positions” (which was most) also gave up their
longevity
payments which averaged $462 per employee.
Now comes
the news that the “Deal” exempted approximate 3,500 or so non-union
senior
managers who will once again get their longevity payments – this time
in their
October paychecks.
While the
average senior manager will be receiving about $2,000 on top of their
regular
pay in their October pay check, some of Malloy’s top staff and
closest
advisors will be getting up to $5,600 in longevity payments despite the
no wage
increase, no longevity payment Malloy/SEBAC deal.
Some
readers
may recall my earlier blog posts about this topic including one last
spring
when Governor Malloy said “I have been critical of longevity payments
for some
time now. They are a luxury the state cannot afford.”
And the
Malloy/SEBAC agreement did end longevity payments for tens of thousands
of
unionized state employees, while reducing the payments to a group of
unionized
“un-capped” employees for the next two years.
However,
as
CTMirror is now reporting – Malloy’s non-union managers will be getting
their
full longevity payments this year AND next.
At least
three members of Malloy’s personal staff in the Governor’s Office will
be
splitting new longevity bonuses of $5,600.
Approximately
sixty-seven employees in the Governor’s budget office will be sharing
over
$167,000 in longevity bonuses. One top appointee at OPM will
pocket an
extra $4,800, three more will collect over $4,000 each and at
least
twenty-seven will get getting $3,000 or more in longevity bonuses.
Malloy’s
Commissioner of Corrections will get an extra $5,600, his Commissioner
of
Banking will get an extra $4,800, his Commissioner of Emergency
Management and
Homeland Security will get an extra $3,600, his Commissioner of
Veterans
Affairs will get $2,400 and his Commissioners of Higher Education
Mental Health
and Addiction services will each pocket an extra $1,400.
Shared
Sacrifice Bullshit
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