A majority of federal employees would be able to cash out part of their unused sick leave at retirement under a bill introduced yesterday by Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.).
Britain remains "the sick man of Europe" because the NHS is overwhelmed by Government targets, a think-tank has claimed. This is the reason that drugs and treatment are still being rationed despite huge increases in Health Service spending, Civitas found.
A group representing federal managers praised the introduction of a new bill that would pay some retiring federal employees up to $10,000 for their unused sick leave.
Denver paid out $7.8 million to nearly 1,000 departing employees for unused sick and vacation pay last year, and one police division chief retired with a check for $92,000.
A proposed law would give U.S. federal employees the ability to cash out some unused sick leave when they retire.U.S. Rep. James Moran, D-Va., wants to change the current use-it-or-lose-it rules, which he says encourage federal workers to call in sick as much as possible as they near retirement age.Moran pointed to a recent government study that estimated the cost of the current regulations to
Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.
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