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Charlotte Facing Suit From Retirees Over Sick Leave Payoff
A retired battalion chief is suing the City of Charlotte claiming the formula the city uses to calculate sick and vacation payouts to retiring firefighters is flawed.
Brian Kurzel filed the suit, and is hoping additional retirees join him. He claims the city’s calculation only gives retirees 86 percent of what they’re owed. The city contends its calculations are correct.
Ah yes. The big question of “Pension Spiking” or the addition of unused sick and vacation time to the addition of the pension check or one large benefit check.
What has been slowly chipped at over the past12 years ago, when pension plans were supposedly the cause of the “Great Recession”. All of those plans seeking to gain a higher rate of return on the Wall Street Stock Market.
I hope Brian Kurzel, is able to win his case. It looks like this is getting down to a State by State and local agency issue.
Two California case about this type or similar type of spiking is headed for or at the California Supreme Court, as Curt has listed elsewhere.
Yet, these types of pay outs are negotiated by the Union and Bargaining Unit.
Then again, from my perspective North Carolina is not as Union friendly as California is.