Managers at the City of Montreal will reportedly split close to $500,000 in bonuses for overtime logged during last spring's floods.
La Presse reports that at its final meeting last week, the Coderre administration quietly changed the managers' working conditions, giving the city's director-general, Alain Marcoux, the power to offer that kind of compensation to city managers.
The existing contract with the city does not allow managers to receive overtime pay, but the report claims the city made the change because of the extra workload incurred during the floods this past speing, as well as during intensive negotiations with other union groups over the past year.