Still seems like a lot but it means that we won't see hundreds of thousands of dollars being paid out to retiring employees who "saved up"* their sick and vacation days over the years so they could cash out bigtime upon retirement.
What's wrong with that? That's part of the pay package. THEY EARNED IT.

*Turns out it's easy to "save up" your "unused" vacation and sick pay when they're not being recorded properly.
Makes for good rhetoric from the podium but is there proof of egregious abuse? And of that abuse, who was it?