LOS ANGELES : Supervisors Vote to End Bonus for Retiring Officials
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted to end the practice of giving six-month pay bonuses to retiring executives, the latest in a series of efforts to scale back the county’s unusually generous benefits package.
In a unanimous vote, the supervisors agreed to stop paying the bonuses to newly hired department heads and will seek outside legal advice on ways to take the benefit away from department heads who have the bonuses written into their contracts. In recent months some retiring county employees have received lump sum bonuses of more than $80,000.
The move follows efforts by the board to pare back pension benefits and car allowances for senior officials after a pension scandal two years ago.
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