And by “furloughed,” we mean that, at least if past is prologue, federal employees get back pay for all furlough time with full pay, right?
Government Shutdown - March Edition
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ClearanceClarence
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I believe there’s federal law that guarantees full back pay for furlough status during shutdowns now.
Awesome! I thought that might be the case. Does anyone have a link to that? I’ll search it myself in the meantime. Definitely useful info for the federal ATC community at a time like this.
Found the link:
ClearanceClarence
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Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 - Wikipedia
32andBelow
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They can tack on whatever the hell they want to the budget next year
True, but until they make any changes in any future law, the existing law cited in the link presides, right?
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It does. But you shouldn’t use prior sanity to decide how to proceed in the new future.
Gotcha. I’m fully aware, lol. I harbor no illusions of what our future holds in this fucked up new reality.
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Not even fully in and already supporting a government shutdown, at least no one is eating the cats or dogs anymore
It’s not just the immigrants, we federal employees gotta eat too, Sir.
ilefttheunion
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Now no one eats? Here is to hoping for a quick shutdown and no sick letters for the leave abuse that is about to come.
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He fixed that already
The 13th amendment to the Constitution
Sick leave letters seem silly to get if you aren't burning any sick leave
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You can bang out and use sick leave. If you are sick and take nyqill or theraflu or zyrtec d make sure you call and report it to the flight surgeon.
If you are medically dqd you may have to request to be furloughed
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Can use sick leave or furlough. Our contract doesn't have furlough abuse letters.
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Employees generally will not opt to use paid leave since retroactive pay is granted for furlough periods without charge to leave balances under 31 U.S.C. 1341(c)(2). As a result, most employees prefer to remain in furlough status for the duration of the lapse to preserve their leave balances."
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What does "prefer" or "request" to be in furlough status even mean? Can they not just deny it?
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This is my opinion
Furlough of Excepted Employees:
- If an employee is performing "excepted" work (work critical to human safety, the protection of property, or other excepted activities), they cannot simply stop working because their duties are essential.
- Supervisors can deny a furlough request for such employees because the work they are performing is deemed necessary to continue during the shutdown.
- In exceptional cases where an excepted employee requests to use paid leave (under 31 U.S.C. 1341(c)(3)) or seeks furlough status, the supervisor has discretion to approve or deny the request, taking into account operational needs.
