Sherri,

Are you sure that you will be docked for three days? I saw in the
newspaper that the governor had promised to compensate employees--i.e.,
give them full pay--for the days that they had been kept away from their
jobs. Of course, it was not your fault.

Mike Russell

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Sherri L. Hobart wrote:

> Now that the budget issues have been settled, I'd like to ask about the
> decision to NOT pay the "non-essential" personnel?  We have to either take
> annual leave for those days or not get paid.  I know there are others on
> this campus who have (like me) used their vacation days to actually take
> vacation this year.  I don't have annual leave available to me, so my
> paycheck in July is going to be less by 3 days.  Now, to be fair, it was NOT
> our fault that the legislature could not get their act together and pass a
> budget...it was not our choice to miss work.  Someone in authority ought to
> make the decision to offer those days as "Unscheduled Administrative
> Closure."  I cannot afford to lose 3 days off of my paycheck...
>
>              <---Sherri--->
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> Sherri L. Hobart, CPS
> Administrative Assistant
> Southeast Center for Education in the Arts
> 615 McCallie Avenue - Dept 6706
> Chattanooga, TN  37403
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