Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape

Lucas123 writes "The missing tape, stolen from an intern's car, contained data on all 64,467 state employees, 19,388 former employees and 47,245 Ohio taxpayers. The state believes the incident will cost them $3 million. So after four months of deliberation, the Ohio Department of Administrative Services announced today that they decided to take a week's vacation away from Jerry Miller, their payroll team leader and the guy in charge of the missing data."

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Re:So his salary must be...

[MrMr]

I would settle for 3 million turkish lira a year...

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=3000000&from=TRY&to=USD&submit=Convert [yahoo.com]

Re:Isn't..

[baileydau]

Isn't the company responsible for negligence carried out by an employee in the course of his duties...

Yes they are ... That is with respect to any external parties that may have been harmed.

Even though the company is liable for any negligence, they have the option of internal sanctions against any negligent employee.

That's why he only got docked 1 weeks holiday, not the entire $3M

Re:A week?

[Anonymous Coward]

In the US, employers aren't required to pay you for not working. Vacation days must be scheduled, sick days not. Employers are also not required to have insurance that covers employee's salary while they're sick. Most employers do cover some sick days for salaried employees. Mine and my wife's cover unlimited sick days. Not all do, as everyone who's senior in the union abuses it since they can't be fired.

Re:After 4 hours of deliberation...

[pbemfun]

The intern was fired a few weeks after this happened. As was the intern's immediate supervisor and the supervisor's manager.