Santa Clara County Grand Jury
• 2009-2010
• Agency Response
Response to:
Unsustainable Employee Costs
City of Milpitas Office of Mayor Robert Livengood
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Findings and Recommendations 1 findings
F6
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- Public sector employees are granted agenerous number of holidays, personal days,vacation days and sickleave annually. Rulesand limits on accrualvary bycity and union, but vacation daysand sickleave can be accumulated andconverted to cashor calculated into the pension benefit within those limits. City Response: Agree.
Related Recommendations (2)
R6a
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- Citiesshould renegotiate with the bargaining units to 1)reduce vacation time; 2} reduce the number of holidays and/or personal days;3}capsickleaveand eliminate the practice of converting accumulated sick leaveto cashor adding into their years of servicefor inclusion intheir retirement benefit.
R6b
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- Citiesshould negotiate to substitute paid daysoff for unpaid daysinstead of imposing furloughs. Forexample, reduce paid holidays to major holidays only, consistent with private industry; and convert minor holidays to unpaid. Therefore, the public isnot impacted byfewer services causedby furloughs, and the city savesthe employee cost.
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