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Originally Posted by Slava
Why shouldn't we compare this to the private sector? Its a cost of running business and these people could presumably go find work there, and likely came from there as well? Her Chief of Staff was a partner at a major law firm before taking that role. I doubt he would consider that for say $75k a year to keep in line with the average employee.
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Because severance packages in the private sector only need to be acceptable to either the shareholders, or the owners, of the business. The public has no say in the matter, nor should they as they are not required to pay for any of it.
Public sector employees are accountable to a completely different set of expectations and standards. It's not the cost of running a business, it's the cost of serving the public. And their severance packages are completely out of line with the service they supplied to the public. The information coming out now is showing us they only served themselves and the premier. They did so, without remorse, from the public purse. You want them to be rewarded for this?
This isn't just a culture of entitlement we're seeing now with Redford and her cronies. This is corruption and deliberate malfeasance.