BOSTON – Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers are in line for more than $49 million in collective retirement pay simply because they stashed away unused sick days, according to an analysis from the Pioneer Institute in Boston.
Public records obtained by the policy research organization show that the T's staff piled up 380,155 unused sick days by the end of 2014. One employee had amassed 407 days.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A small Catholic university in southern New Hampshire is becoming the latest college to offer a money-back guarantee of sorts to its students.
Rivier University, which has a total student population of about 2,600 in Nashua, has created an "Employment Promise Program" that will be available to full-time undergraduates starting with the class of 2020. Students are guaranteed to land a job within nine months of graduation, or the school with either pay their federally subsidized students loans for up to a year or enroll them in up to six master's degree courses tuition-free.
