Because of an accounting error in Lawrenceville, GA, 180 county employees were asked to pay back a total of $39,000 in bonuses that they were given in 1994. Cash payment, or exchanges of vacation time, are both acceptable methods of paying back these guys.
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It's true that government workers are generally overpaid, but it seems a little cruel to do this retroactively.
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