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Opinion: Sizable sick leave payouts cost Minnesota county $2 million each year
June 29, 2026 // The high payouts are a vestige of past labor agreements with the handful of unions that represent the county's 1,850 employees. "If you're maintaining an antiquated policy that's really kind of a leaky sieve in terms of generosity—and you're paying out some really excessive payouts in this kind of regard—that's by choice," said Leonard Gilroy, vice president of government reform for the Reason Foundation, a national Libertarian policy group.