Fat & Lazy Govt Employees Fleecing the Public

Government employees at all levels have the lowest efficiency rates among all sectors in the United States, according to a recent study published by the Fairbank Management Group. This is not at all surprising, yet there are many other wide-spread abuses usually not revealed to the public. These include:

**pension spiking. The averge public employee in California, for example, gets 60% of his highest pay upon retirement. He also receives full medical coverage for him and his spouse or domestic partner.

**highest absence rates. Public employees have the highest usage of sick time in all industries surveyed.

**highest workers' comp claims. Public employees also have unusually high workers' comp claims rates. In one sub-section of the Fairbank Study, a local agency in Los Angeles County has a 35% workers' comp injury claims. And these were cubicle dwellers who, in another audit, spent about 70% of their time surfing the Internet.

So in essence, taxpayers are asked to pay for wrist "injuries" incurred because these employees were doing something they were not supposed to do in the first place!!

**fewest hours worked. While it is questionable whether goverment employees actually work, they still manage to log in the fewest number of hours at the job sites. In one case cited by the Fairbank Study, employees routinely disappear from their offices between 12 - 2 and then leave for the day at 3.30 PM.

Jonathan Fairbank, editor-in-chief of the Fairbank Report and CEO of the Fairbank Group, calls the findings in the Study alarming and highly problematic. Mr. Fairbank says that this is a wake-up call to all American taxpayers to rein in run-away government at all levels.