ACA/Obamacare: Employees of the Failed Oregon Exchange Receive the Boot, A Layoff or a Bonus? Try Bonus!

"Now that Oregon’s Obamacare exchange has entirely given up on fixing or running its own Obamacare website, the state exchange is handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding as bonuses to employees that stick around until the federal government takes over.

“Many of the employees who voluntarily left Cover Oregon had key skills that are not easily replaced both in IT and in health care laws and regulations,” interim director Clyde Hamstreet wrote to the exchange’s board, Oregon Live reports. “We cannot afford to keep losing valuable employees if we are to complete the workload for the remainder of 2014 and the IT transition project.”

Thirty-eight employees will be awarded bonuses worth one to three months pay to convince them to stay on with the exchange through the next nine months. All remaining 163 employees will be eligible for a bonus worth two weeks of government pay if they remain at the exchange through March 15." - Obamacare Employees Behind Failed Oregon Exchange Now Getting Cushy Bonuses, The Daily Caller, 06/24/2014


Link to the entire article appears below:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/24/obamacare-employees-behind-failed-oregon-exchange-now-getting-cushy-bonuses/