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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd love a rundown of the cost of Syphax employees before and after Duran. It seems crazy how many positions he added but maybe it's actually not that much money. [/quote]

First, one of the earlier post has a list of positions. Secondly, don’t forget they will  cashing out tons of vacation days paid so that’s an additional cost.[/quote]

Those paid days should be first thing on the chopping block. [/quote]

how much money would that save? [/quote]

That’s easily in the millions.[/quote]

how about real numbers please? [/quote]

APS won’t put out numbers on it. [/quote]

I don’t work at APS, so this is just based on general budgeting/finance knowledge. If they are salaried employees there’s no direct incremental cost to extra holidays until the employee leaves and APS pays out unused vacation days that would have otherwise been burned. However, if the employees are less productive because they are working less, that cost can come through in the form of additional employees being needed or things just not getting done. [/quote]

+1 it was a back door pay raise.  Same salary for fewer days worked .[/quote]

As a teacher,  I’ll get a measly 1% COLA  this year.  And lost my health insurance.  Still  angry about this. [/quote]

Private sector employees don't typically get COLAs and have to change (not "lose") insurance companies all the time. No one cares about these particular complaints. [/quote]

Private sector employees can work from home, use the bathroom when they’d like, and [b]go in and ask for a raise[/b].  Look- teaching is, quite frankly, a lot harder than it used to be.  No one knows how to say no to their kids anymore, class sizes are huge- and they’re going to be empty if the salaries can’t keep up with the cost of living.   [/quote]

I've never worked in a private sector company where that was the case. There are salary bands for each position and you are stuck in them and evaluated once a year. There is a pool that is distributed among everyone in your labor category and your evaluation drives the amount of your raise and--if your performance is average, or if you have a supervisor who isn't good an advocating for you, you will get a smaller raise than other people. They don't just give everyone an automatic step increase for everyone or a COLA. The entire raise pool might only be 1 percent of salaries, or 3 percent of salaries.

Also, private sector companies often hire people from the outside at "market competitive" salaries without making "market adjustments" for current staff, so long term staff tend to fall behind market and can be paid less than other staff with less experience until the company decided to do a costly overall salary adjustment which they only do when retention starts to be an issue. [/quote]

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