The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on mayoral candidates to indicate their positions on severance pay for council members who quit and for city bureaucrats who receive golden goodbye cheques when they retire.
According to the City of Winnipeg’s 2013 annual report, severance pay for bureaucrats who quit in 2013 amounted to approximately $7.25 million. The liability for future payouts stands at around $89 million.
“It’s great that people are worked up about politicians receiving big cheques for quitting their jobs,” said CTF Prairie Director Colin Craig. “But that’s peanuts when one considers last year the city paid out $7 million in goodbye cheques to bureaucrats who quit. Almost no one outside government gets such a golden goodbye cheque.”
“What would mayoral candidates do about the problem?” asked Craig.
CTF estimates for severance pay for all sitting council members can be viewed by clicking here.
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