Public Sector
FL: State employees get huge payout by swapping sick time for cash
By Yaël Ossowski | Florida Watchdog TAMPA— Ever thought of taking all those saved sick days and vacation days and exchanging them for some cold, hard cash? That’s the promotional offer being handed out to Florida state employees when they retire, resign or receive their pink slip, as enshrined in state law. Public sector employees were awarded $51.7…
FL public sector the biggest single employer
By Yaël Ossowski | Florida Watchdog TAMPA — In the search to find the biggest job creator in Florida, residents should look no further than themselves — or rather, their government. The single largest employer in 51 of 67 Florida counties is the public sector, including members of the military, librarians, college professors, prison guards, administrators…
Public versus Private Pay
There is a big talk of unionization and public-sector pay versus private-sector pay as of late. We all remember the articles in USA Today, detailing how employees of the government are paid much more than their equivalents in the private-sector. They each respectively ran at different points last year, both during the arguments about Health Care reform…