Much Ado About Nothing
Taking a half day for Christmas Eve and News Year Eve doesn't seem like front web page news.
Labels: city hall, shenanigans
posted by dosten at
10:10 AM
I live in New Encinitas. I care about the city and its people.
Labels: city hall, shenanigans
posted by dosten at
10:10 AM
4 Comments:
Not really that big of deal but then there are lots of companies that don't give that time off for free especially in the service sector. City staff already get a gross amount of salary and benefits and if they want an extra day off a year they should negotiate for it. Lotsa businesses and governments were open all day new year's eve. There was no reason at all that the city couldn't stay open.
You have missed one of the points. The City Council approves the union contract. In that contract are the terms that both the Council and the union members agree to in writing. The Council is the ONLY AUTHORITY that can change, add, or delete anything from that contract. The contract spells out the number of holidays for the employees. The city manager usurped the Council authority by giving the employees extra holidays.
Anonymous 11:18 is right.
Sure this may seem minor but it is a symptom of a much larger problem.
It really has nothing to do with the employees and everything to do with who is running the city.
Elected officials (the representatives of the public) or the city manager (a bureaucrat who lives in Oceanside and doesn't pay taxes in Encinitas)?
Let me see if I have this right. Council just gave the City employees a 3.5% raise each year for the next 4 years. Add onto that a great healthcare package, pension, when one retires, 4 day workweeks, and they cannot get fired. Sweet! Perhaps it is time to get rid of Phil Cotton, the entire Council, and let the employees run the show. They seem to be smarter than the management and they are already running it anyway.
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