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| Vacation, sick time payouts cost taxpayers millions |
| By myfoxtampabay.com - Doug Smith |
| Published: 10/09/2012 |
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TALLAHASSEE - A lot of good jobs come with benefits that allow employees to take paid sick time and vacation. Government work is very generous in this area. In Florida, if state employees don't use their days, they can be banked and converted into cash when they leave. That's important to Mike Ebersole, who works for the Florida Department of Transportation in the Sarasota Operations Center. "We haven't had a raise in seven years, so to have that little bit of a cushion when we do retire is a benefit," says Ebersole. The benefit of cashing out deferred sick and vacation time for employees with 10 years or more of service costs taxpayers millions. FOX 13 obtained the records, and in fiscal year 2011-2012, Florida paid out $1,239,834 in accumulated sick time to employees in the Department of Transportation who left the agency. The largest pay out, however, was in the Department of Corrections. The state paid $2,406,601, according to records provided by Florida's Department of Management Services. Read More. |
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