University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly on Friday released information requested by lawmakers showing that about 80 percent of administrators — more than 1,000 of them — have guaranteed backup jobs required by state law or individual contracts.
Reilly’s three-page letter to the leaders of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee also provides some explanation of how a person with rights to a backup job could be paid for a period of time after leaving the System — but it did not include a count of former employees who received such a benefit in the past three years, as lawmakers had requested.
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