California: UC chief changes buyout policy; Limits Severance Pay to Rehired Workers

by E Wayne Ross on December 3, 2008

San Francisco Chronicle: UC chief changes buyout policy

The new president of the University of California system pledged Tuesday that employees in his office no longer will be allowed to collect full severance checks and then be rehired at other UC locations.

While avoiding open criticism of his predecessor, Robert Dynes, President Mark Yudof noted that the program in which 16 employees got hefty severance checks and landed in other UC jobs this year was created prior to June, when he took the 10-campus university’s top job.