Here’s an article that makes you think. The City Of New York, both victim and hero of 9-11 and “proprietor” of some of the world’s best emergency services ought to be taking care of their employees. Well, they’re taking care of them, all right. Taking care of them the way the bull “takes care” of the cow. 
The issue is that the city expects that city employees should not be paid twice for the time they are away from their jobs on military duty. Nothing wrong with that principle, indeed it corresponds with most civil and commercial entities who handle military deployments of employees. But the way New York City is implementing the procedure seems onerous, if not downright stupid.
In most enlightened agencies the employee who is called to military duty furnishes the employer a pay stub to show his or her military pay. The employer can then deduct the amount being provided by the military, and/or withhold pay if the military entitlement comes out to be more. This way, the employee still should be “whole”, that is he or she should still get the same amount to pay the bills and take care of family needs and when the period of military call-up is over, there should be no big bills or huge re-adjustments needed.
Well the picture above of the New York police officer standing alone and forlorn is about the way New York seems to want to treat their finest. The city just issued sort of half-understandable rules in the turmoil of these folks being called up and left things to flow as they would for more than 4 years now. Out of the blue they are now telling employees that they owe huge amounts due to double compensation. A sad way to do business with those who risk their lives for us. A stupid way to do business, allowing folks on moderate salaries to run up bills in six figures and then expect repayment on a whim.
Sad.
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