{"id":133,"date":"2004-07-30T23:09:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/7685c6d2-7d75-4dc1-b576-895570b52df6"},"modified":"2018-02-03T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T23:09:23","slug":"suspended-with-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Suspended with pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An edited version of this letter to the editor of the Montreal Gazette appeared in the 2004-8-2 edition under the heading \u201cSuspension <\/i>with<i> pay not a bad idea\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Given the demonstrated inability of many government or crown corporation bureaucrats to do their jobs properly, it seems pretty clear that they are on the receiving end of a form of welfare. This becomes more obvious when these same bureaucrats are \u201csuspended with pay\u201d (\u201dCanada Post boss Ouellet is grilled over $2 million in expenses\u201d, Gazette, July 30, 2004). As taxpayers, this may be to our benefit; after all, someone who is not working is unlikely to run up $2 million in expenses over 8 years, and hopefully will not be able to \u201cinfluence the procurement process and\/or outcome\u201d or take part in so-called \u201cspecial hires\u201d that circumvent normal hiring practices. This makes suspensions with pay a win-win proposition: the bureaucrat is on permanent holiday, and the taxpayer saves money. We only need to remove the stigma of being \u201csuspended\u201d; we could call it \u201cearly retirement\u201d instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An edited version of this letter to the editor of the Montreal Gazette appeared in the 2004-8-2 edition under the heading \u201cSuspension with pay not a bad idea\u201d. Given the demonstrated inability of many government or crown corporation bureaucrats to do their jobs properly, it seems pretty clear that they&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}