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Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah wait… If nobody is getting paid, what the fuck are my taxes doing? Give 'em back.
First everyone gets back pay, then people need to work a bunch of overtime after the shutdown to make up for work, so will actually cost even more money.
But even if that wasn’t true, employee salaries make up less than 5% of the budget so a 35 day shut down (the previous record) would make up less than half a percent of the budget
I read that everybody will also get back pay.
I’m a federal employee. Everyone falls in one of three categories: Exempt, Excepted, Non-Excepted.
Exempt people are expected to come to work normally and they are paid normally. They probably don’t really see a change.
Non-Excepted people are furloughed. They were sent home Wednesday morning and will wait it out doing whatever they’d like and they will get all wages that were missed when everything is over. They will be paid for doing nothing.
Excepted people have the worst of both worlds. They have to come to work because they’ve been deemed critical but won’t get paid for it until its over. I’m in this category. I’m doing my job but im taking my time to accomplish anything.
The law that governs this is the “Government Employee Fair Treatment Act” of 2019.
It’s fun that instead of figuring our shit out and funding the government together, we just developed regulations around shutdowns.
That’s because they turned “shutdowns” into a political weapon.
Random internet stranger, thank you. It’s fucking annoying, but thank you.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Congress still gets paid during a shutdown
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How convenient.