Disappointed in Management of Sulphur Creek

As I am disappointed to hear HARD's (Hayward Area Recreation Department) management of Sulphur Creek I am not surprised. .When the pandemic hit almost all hourly employees were all laid off – basically fired.

Hundreds of HARD's loyal hourly employees who were also going through contract negotiations for several years. Now as things are beginning to re-open these same employees are having to go through the humiliation of APPLYING and INTERVIEWING for their old jobs – starting from scratch, having lost whatever benefits they had accrued from their time with HARD - sick time, Holiday pay, etc.. and only being allowed to work part time with ZERO benefits. This was the policy set forth by management and allowed to happen with the approval of the HARD board. To me, this is despicable behavior that these employees had to suffer through. HARD completely and absolutely used the Pandemic to their benefit. The descent thing would have been to furlough these employees with no loss of benefits or seniority and to bring them back as needed.

Many long time and loyal employees left due to the climate management has created the last few years. The tax payers and employees deserve so much better. There needs to be a change with the Board and the administration so this kind of very unethical behavior is corrected and not allowed to happen again.

–Frank Thomas, Livermore