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Article: WHIRLPOOL RETIREES GET OVERDUE VACATION PAY
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2006
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Some Whirlpool retirees received extra money in their pension
checks a week ago, thanks to an arbitrator's ruling that they were
entitled to some past vacation pay.
Lyman K. Roll, a Whirlpool retiree, said he was one of the
retirees who received a part of the award, which for him amounted to
five weeks of vacation pay, or about $3,680 in gross pay.
Roll said about 120 retirees received money as part of the
arbitrator's ruling. The amount they received depended on how much
vacation pay they were eligible for in 2005. Roll said he had heard
the total amount of money awarded to retirees by the ruling was about
$700,000.
However, Debby Castrale, a spokeswoman for Whirlpool, said the
total award ...