• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Politics / Govt / House Speaker says early retirement returnees weren’t intended

House Speaker says early retirement returnees weren’t intended

August 13, 2002 By admin

Iowa House Speaker Brent Siegrist says the early-retirement option aimed at cutting state payrolls wasn’t meant to allow workers to return to work after getting retirement benefits. A Des Moines Register report says as many as 44 state workers who retired, returned to work as “consultants.” Agency heads say they need the expertise of former key employees to train replacements. Siegrist says that defeats the purpose of the plan. He says the purpose of the early-retirement program was to avoid layoffs, but front-line workers will still be fired if people who retire early then return to fill state jobs. Siegrist says earlier this year, in the regular session, legislative leaders thought they’d passed legislation that would prevent the double dipping of workers who return to claim paychecks after taking retirement.He wants to know how so many people can claim retirement benefits and still get paid their normal salary as consultants. The state’s confirmed a number of employees now classified as temporary or contracted workers claimed as much as two-point-four million dollars in early-retirement benefits and have drawn nearly half a million in pay since retiring.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Politics / Govt Tagged With: Employment and Labor

Featured Stories

Testing finds 21 new CWD cases in deer

It may become a crime in Iowa to use fake urine in workplace drug tests

February trending 18 degrees below average temperature

Iowa House Education Committee votes to end tenure at UI, ISU, UNI

Man convicted of two Muscatine County murders dies in prison

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Key stretch begins for #9 Iowa

Drake’s Roman Penn lost for the season

Drake’s DeVries named to Naismith watch list

State wrestling opens with limited attendance

Iowa’s Wieskamp is B1G Player of the Week

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2021 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC