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Ex-NDP staffer who resigned gets $130K severance
Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2008 5:50 PM CT
CBC News
A former NDP caucus employee who resigned amid a controversy at the legislature will receive more than $130,000 in severance.
Jim Fodey resigned as the NDP chief of staff last year after Regina's police chief said Fodey's public statements about a 1992 case of missing money at the NDP caucus did not jibe with police records.
The legislative assembly heard that a former caucus employee confessed in a letter that she took about $6,000 to which she wasn't entitled by changing numbers on cheques.
The Saskatchewan Party quoted from the letter in the legislature. Fodey later said the letter and other documents had been reported to police at the time, in 1992.
However, police said it was actually two years later that information was provided to them.
NDP MLA Frank Quennell said Friday that even though Fodey resigned, he is still entitled to severance and the amount he is receiving is fair.
"It was what would be called in law an involuntary resignation, a resignation under duress," Quennell said.
To avoid paying severance might mean putting at risk more public money by fighting a lawsuit, he said.
However, the Saskatchewan Party insists that the rules of the legislature state that severance is supposed to be paid for termination without cause and if Fodey quit, he shouldn't

Ex-NDP staffer who resigned gets $130K severance
Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2008 5:50 PM CT
CBC News
A former NDP caucus employee who resigned amid a controversy at the legislature will receive more than $130,000 in severance.
Jim Fodey resigned as the NDP chief of staff last year after Regina's police chief said Fodey's public statements about a 1992 case of missing money at the NDP caucus did not jibe with police records.
The legislative assembly heard that a former caucus employee confessed in a letter that she took about $6,000 to which she wasn't entitled by changing numbers on cheques.
The Saskatchewan Party quoted from the letter in the legislature. Fodey later said the letter and other documents had been reported to police at the time, in 1992.
However, police said it was actually two years later that information was provided to them.
NDP MLA Frank Quennell said Friday that even though Fodey resigned, he is still entitled to severance and the amount he is receiving is fair.
"It was what would be called in law an involuntary resignation, a resignation under duress," Quennell said.
To avoid paying severance might mean putting at risk more public money by fighting a lawsuit, he said.
However, the Saskatchewan Party insists that the rules of the legislature state that severance is supposed to be paid for termination without cause and if Fodey quit, he shouldn't
Ex-NDP staffer who resigned gets $130K severance
Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2008 5:50 PM CT
CBC News
A former NDP caucus employee who resigned amid a controversy at the legislature will receive more than $130,000 in severance.
Jim Fodey resigned as the NDP chief of staff last year after Regina's police chief said Fodey's public statements about a 1992 case of missing money at the NDP caucus did not jibe with police records.
The legislative assembly heard that a former caucus employee confessed in a letter that she took about $6,000 to which she wasn't entitled by changing numbers on cheques.
The Saskatchewan Party quoted from the letter in the legislature. Fodey later said the letter and other documents had been reported to police at the time, in 1992.
However, police said it was actually two years later that information was provided to them.
NDP MLA Frank Quennell said Friday that even though Fodey resigned, he is still entitled to severance and the amount he is receiving is fair.
"It was what would be called in law an involuntary resignation, a resignation under duress," Quennell said.
To avoid paying severance might mean putting at risk more public money by fighting a lawsuit, he said.
However, the Saskatchewan Party insists that the rules of the legislature state that severance is supposed to be paid for termination without cause and if Fodey quit, he shouldn't