Such Harsh Punishment!
The University of California, Berkeley, has demoted and reduced the salary of a veteran administrator accused of improperly giving pay raises to an employee with whom she was having a sexual relationship.
Diane Leite, 47, a former assistant vice chancellor in the Research Enterprise Services department, pushed through five raises in two years for Jonathan Caniezo… Caniezo, a 30-year-old purchasing manager, saw his pay rise from less than $70,000 in 2007 to more than $110,000 in 2010, according to university records obtained by the newspaper. Caniezo’s direct supervisor had opposed the raises, arguing that he had not earned them, according to a report by school investigators…
After investigators found that Leite violated the university’s sexual harassment policy, she was demoted March 1 from her position as assistant vice chancellor. Her pay was cut from about $188,000 to $175,000…
Full story at: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/12/4331290/uc-berkeley-manager-demoted-over.html
…Leite told investigators she didn’t know the relationship violated UC’s sexual harassment policy. Yet Leite had completed sexual harassment training three times, in 2006, 2009 and 2011, the report says. Caniezo took the training twice. The report says Leite also put pressure on another employee to sign off on the pay hikes. Records show that Caniezo got a raise to $107,000 in August 2010. He received additional monthly stipends of $1,118 from September 2009 to August 2010. After that, the amount dropped to $892. In July 2011, his salary grew to $110,210. The employee told to approve the extra pay “began arguing” with Leite in January 2010 “because she felt that Leite was providing (Caniezo) with compensation that he had not earned,” the report says.
Full article at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/12/BAKM1NJMJT.DTL