EVANS COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - The Evans County School District is threatening an employee with legal action for not paying back a bonus.
Yolanda Cullars said she’s one of a few Evans County School System employees being targeted to pay back a retention bonus.
“I’m trying to figure out why I gotta pay the retention bonus back if I’m still an employee and I never left.”
The district wants $1,000 from her, and they’ve already started taking it out of her check.
“I just feel like it was kind of backstabbing.”
When the district gave out the bonuses for the 2022 school year, the only strings attached were that an employee couldn’t “leave” during that school year or it would be deducted from their check.
Cullars went from a full-time substitute and bus driver to part-time.
That triggered a collection effort from the school system revealed by threads of emails WTOC obtained between the school system and Cullars.
WTOC reached out to Superintendent Marty Waters to ask about the language not being clear about “leaving.”
He responded it “implied leaving a bonus-eligible position” - meaning the bonus was only for those who are full-time.
Cullars said: “It has been back and forth. One minute I can keep it and the next minute I can’t keep it.”
The emails sent to WTOC also show a human resources representative telling Cullars in July of last year that she could keep the bonus because she drove enough hours.
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