Oh boo-hoo, cry me a river. As if other people don't have a problem with finding a new in a matter of a few weeks? He's getting $46k plus any unused sick and vacation time, which should allow him to live comfortably for 6 months or more while looking for work. And do you think for one moment that if he knows he might be out of a job in 9 months he is not already looking for a new job? There's little doubt that Mr. Jennings will land on his feet and find a new position without a lot of distress -- unlike most of the unemployed people right now.Next question: why $46,000? Seems like the incentive for not leaving
early could have been thousands less than what is, after all, a year's
salary for most Minneapolitans.
I don't think we can look at this compared to the wages "for most Minneapolitans," David Jennings has a skill set that both demands and deserves a higher salary than the metro median income.
He also faces the reality that he likely won't find a new job in a matter of a few weeks.
The School Board clearly values Mr. Jennings, they offered him theOnly in the over-paid, ethically bankrupt world of government bureaucrats and mutli-milliionaire CEOs. Except for union workers with union contracts (and ever they can be layed off), the VAST majority of people are employed as "at will" employees, which means they can be terminated tomorrow, or even today. That sounds pretty much like an "indefinite employement period" to me. Most of them get little to no severance pay.
Superintendent position. They clearly want him to stay for a yet to be
determined period of time (the contract apparently says it can be
extended up to 3 years).
Indefinite employment periods often include compensation or bonuses for
staying until the end. I think that part of the contract is entirely
reasonable.
Virtually zero private employers vest sick pay anymore, and therefore do NOT pay for unused sick time when an employee leaves employment. Only governmenets and fat-cat CEOs get that kind of treatment, and frankly that kind of unequal treatment stinks. Executive compensation is out of control, and the public and private boards responsible for making those decisions have abrogated their fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers and stockholders respectively.
Such is life when one's belly is up to the public trough. It's so easy to spend Other People's Money.It is my understanding that many City of Minneapolis department managers have contracts that provide for severance benefits when the employees leave city government.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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