Home > News City, school longevity pay tops $9M By Thor Jourgensen \/ The Daily Item <\/p>\n
LYNN Taxpayers paid $9.2 million in longevity pay extra money given to most city employees after theyve worked a certain number of years in 2012, according to city records. <\/p>\n
That amount included $6.4 million paid in longevity to 1,254 school employees last year, according to School Business Administrator Kevin McHugh. Another $2.7 million paid to almost 600 other city workers represents a three-fold increase in longevity pay during the last 20 years. <\/p>\n
McHugh said about 730 school employees do not receive longevity. <\/p>\n
Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy said city employees receive the money regardless of how theyve performed. <\/p>\n
It is a perk, a bonus paid not for any merit, said the citys chief labor contract negotiator. <\/p>\n
School Committee member Rick Starbard agreed, saying longevity awards all city and school workers. <\/p>\n
You can be a super teacher or a crappy teacher, come five years, youre getting longevity, he said. <\/p>\n
Described in a statement from Police Association President William Sharpe as wage increases that are tied to the number of years an employee remains employed..., longevity has been a half century-old staple of municipal bargaining contracts, according to union officials. <\/p>\n
I see longevity as an incentive for qualified, experienced employees to remain on the job, said Roger Ennis, the citys chief inspector and president of a city union representing about 50 municipal supervisors and school nurses. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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