A Public School system is outsourcing custodial and grounds maintenance jobs to save money, and they want "'mandatory hiring of our current employees' by the private firm that's selected and provision of a pension benefit" because: 1) Public Schools cannot teach management. 2) Public Schools cannot hire adminstrators who can manage a budget or make good choices in hiring and firing. 3) Public Schools want strangers, hired and vetted by someone else, poking around our Schools. 4) Public Schools do not like unions. 5) Public Schools do not like workers' compensation coverage: "the grounds services, which could be handled by local companies, will be bid separately," because the overwhelming majority of them have less than four employees. "If you are in an industry, other than construction, and have four (4) or more employees, full-time or part-time, you are required to carry workers' compensation coverage (an exempted corporate officer does not count as an employee)." "If you are a state or local government, you are required to carry workers' compensation coverage." http://www.myfloridacfo.com/wc/faq/faqemplyrs.html#1 6) Public School Board members are mentally deficient: "Annual savings would be less in the first year, they reported, because the board would have to pay displaced employees up to $2 million for accumulated sick leave and vacation time and up to $1 million in unemployment benefits if they aren't rehired by the private company." http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130212/NEWS/302129954/1060/NEWS06?p=3&tc=pg I repeat for those that are School Board members: "'mandatory hiring of our current employees' by the private firm that's selected." 7) All of the above. http://www.news-journalonline.com/a...votes-to-outsource-custodial-grounds-services The News-Journal used to have a message board for this kind of stuff; it was shut down in 2004.
