Why is this even a story? It was negotiated between him and his employer, though as a public employee myself, I understand its all the rage to take what was fairly negotiated from public employees in the name of property tax relief that never comes. A better story might be where all the money taken from skipped pension obligations went, and why no one went to jail for the kind of thievery that would land a private sector administrator in jail.

Lou Z is right. We are a society that bases it's business operations on contracts. The police chief had a contract. If workers with similar arrangements are not paid when they leave or retire they will just use their sick leave each year which will require finding substitutes for those workers in addition to paying the worker who is out sick. The bigger problem is that so many people have to go into work when they are sick even though they are exposing co-workers and customers to their illnesses as well as potentially risking their own health. Thom R