In a report issued this week by the State Brick and Toms River were among 16 towns said to have wasteful spending. Totals for both towns nearing $8M
Brick permits employees to trade in unused leave for cash, the report said.
Between 2011 and 2019, Brick paid out $6.6 million in accumulated sick and vacation leave to 197 employees, the report said.
The recipients of those payments included more than 50 employees who collected amounts totaling more than $50,000 apiece and seven employees who each amassed more than $100,000 through sellbacks, the report said.
All municipal employees in Brick are eligible to cash in accumulated sick and vacation time on an annual basis, the report said.
The number of days eligible for redemption and the dollar value paid for the earned time varies among different job titles, the report said.
Toms River banned cash payments for unused sick leave at retirement for employees hired since 2014 and capped such payments for accumulated leave at $15,000 for nearly all other employees, except for police hired before 2010, the report said.
Despite those limits, Toms River permits its employees to sell back unused sick and vacation time – albeit with some conditions – each year, the report said.
These annual sellbacks cost the township’s taxpayers nearly $731,000 between 2014 and 2018 and have had the effect of “thoroughly undermining the limits for payouts at retirement,” the report said.
Credit: NorthJersey.com and Patch
The state is issuing reports about wasteful spending? Now that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day!!! ????????????
Anthony Trump
Anthony Trump I agree
Who is the state to make a comment about wasteful spending. What a bunch of Hippocrates
AMAZING
This state is a joke.
both shitholes
Rob Lee The whole State is a shithole. Who you tryna kid?
Can we talk about the Governors sending?
Next Washington will put out a list of states that waste too much money, I think 50 of them will make the list.
Janice Bechtle-Diana
Always trying to get everyone to cast their eyes on the middle class …. makes me alert now to hmmmm … what DON”T they want us to pay attention to.
Use it or lose it…like the taxpayers
Denise Falone Ferriolo pretty ignorant statement, do think public employees don’t pay taxes? They are taxpayers too…..Also you’d probably be the first to complain that all these public employees were off “sick” when they weren’t.
use it or lose it has also been struck down in court….
William Cairns Jr. Yes and it’s our time earned! Kiss my ass I’m not giving back a minute.
Ryan T Bowers typically pos. As long as get yours, fck the taxpayers on the hook for your selfishness!
Laura Schneider Lange why would you call him a piece of shit and selfish why all your goin on is a statement written by special interest group who doesn’t even know the facts. First of all there is a cap on the amount they pay towns and county govt cap it at 10k. If you don’t use your vacation or personal days you loose them every year the only thing that carries over is sick time at least at the county level.. also all of the blue collar workers are very underpaid compared to the private world. I know for a fact that most private company’s pay at least 10-20k per year more for the same job the reason people work for the govt is to have a pension and those little Benefits at the end of their career. But your right the guy driving that smelly garbage truck or fixing that smelly garbage truck is a selfish piece of shit. Remember not all govt workers are politicians.
So apparently you people are ok with our tax dollars being wasted!?!? Yet you complain we dont have funding for our schools… SMDH!
I suspect that there are more than a few people in those towns who have benefited from the cronyism, corruption, and wasteful spending for so many generations that as public workers, they feel entitled to it and are very protective of the system. Maybe there’s a swamp that needs to be drained there also?
Administration is too top heavy , needs Togo towards the children
does anyone realize that lawsuits to recoup this money by people who never took their leave time would cost a lot more? corporations do it that way, so conceivably it could be argued as such. you cannot force people to use their leave.
Kelley Bless Lol. Corporate America is use it or lose it. ! No one carries years of sick time over
Laura Schneider Lange i do ????
It’s always the people who aren’t public employees who complain about the well deserved benefits. Keep your hands out of my pocket NJ! I surely pay enough in taxes.
Ryan T Bowers
How about the wasted money from Brick, Toms River and Howell going towards Lakewood private schools?
I have so much to say…but I can not!