PENNSYLVANIA : Fired the Night Before Christmas
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Pink slips on Christmas Eve? That’s what as many as 100 top Allegheny County employees received, via special delivery. They were expecting to lose their jobs as part of a changeover in government, but the timing was particularly disturbing to them. “This is a Grinch-like way of treating people, as far as I’m concerned,” county solicitor Ira Weis said. Commissioner Larry Dunn said the letters were supposed to arrive later this week, but a postal foul-up brought them earlier.
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