I've signed the papers.
As of 2:15 today, the papers are signed.
There was no NDA attached. The terms of the settlement are as follows:
1. Neither side admits any fault. They refuse to say that my termination was due to military status, I refuse to say that my termination was due to inadequate performance of my job, officially this settlement is considered "a result of a compromise of the disputed claims".
2. They agree to rescind my termination and reinstate me with all back pay and benefits (including pension contributions, vacation & sick time) from the time of my termination to the time of my reinstatement.
3. They put me back to work at an office that's not the one I was at before (the way the personnel system is set up, that basically guarantees I'll never be working for my old boss ever again).
4. They will remove all documentation of this incident from my personnel file at both the agency and the state government's HR office.
5. They are asking the Personnel Board to vacate every single order and finding they've produced regarding this case, this is the section that apparently took a while for the lawyers to hash out.
6. I agree to not file any kind of lawsuit against the agency for over this issue.
7. I agree to drop the appeal.
Now from here. . .
Sometime between tomorrow and next Thursday, the attorney for the state tries to get in to see the new boss and explain the situation and gets a signature from the boss.
Then they get a signature from an attorney at the state gov's HR office, this is strictly pro-forma since they already approved the wording of the agreement.
Then they take it to the Board and when the board meets next Friday they review the agreement, approve the settlement, and agree to dismiss the case as settled (and take into consideration the State's request to vacate all their prior orders and findings from the case).
Then sometime week-after-next this goes to the State Gov's HR office to start the process of actually reinstating me and getting me back on the payroll and back to work. . . this takes several weeks.
I was warned that the process of paying out the back pay isn't instant and will take them a little while to pay, due to bureaucracy involving pension withholdings and payments into it. Because it involves them retroactively paying over a year of contributions into my state's law enforcement pension system, and the system isn't well set up for that, so they know it'll be a paperwork nightmare to set that up on their end.
As of 2:15 today, the papers are signed.
There was no NDA attached. The terms of the settlement are as follows:
1. Neither side admits any fault. They refuse to say that my termination was due to military status, I refuse to say that my termination was due to inadequate performance of my job, officially this settlement is considered "a result of a compromise of the disputed claims".
2. They agree to rescind my termination and reinstate me with all back pay and benefits (including pension contributions, vacation & sick time) from the time of my termination to the time of my reinstatement.
3. They put me back to work at an office that's not the one I was at before (the way the personnel system is set up, that basically guarantees I'll never be working for my old boss ever again).
4. They will remove all documentation of this incident from my personnel file at both the agency and the state government's HR office.
5. They are asking the Personnel Board to vacate every single order and finding they've produced regarding this case, this is the section that apparently took a while for the lawyers to hash out.
6. I agree to not file any kind of lawsuit against the agency for over this issue.
7. I agree to drop the appeal.
Now from here. . .
Sometime between tomorrow and next Thursday, the attorney for the state tries to get in to see the new boss and explain the situation and gets a signature from the boss.
Then they get a signature from an attorney at the state gov's HR office, this is strictly pro-forma since they already approved the wording of the agreement.
Then they take it to the Board and when the board meets next Friday they review the agreement, approve the settlement, and agree to dismiss the case as settled (and take into consideration the State's request to vacate all their prior orders and findings from the case).
Then sometime week-after-next this goes to the State Gov's HR office to start the process of actually reinstating me and getting me back on the payroll and back to work. . . this takes several weeks.
I was warned that the process of paying out the back pay isn't instant and will take them a little while to pay, due to bureaucracy involving pension withholdings and payments into it. Because it involves them retroactively paying over a year of contributions into my state's law enforcement pension system, and the system isn't well set up for that, so they know it'll be a paperwork nightmare to set that up on their end.
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