Thursday, December 04, 2008
By RYAN DEZEMBER
Staff Reporter
ORANGE BEACH — The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a severance pay package for 23 municipal employees who were laid off last month.
Originally elected officials had proposed paying the laid-off employees 25 percent of the sick time they've accrued up to 80 hours. The city's personnel plan wouldn't allow for that kind of severance but does contain provisions for laid-off employees to receive set amounts of administrative leave pay, said City Attorney Wanda Cochran.
Because council members had said they were comfortable spending $10,600 on severance under the sick leave compensation plan, Cochran said that number was used to calculate the amount of administrative leave each former employee would get paid: 24 hours worth.
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