Government Shutdown

32andBelow said:
No I’m talking about this 50% withholding boondoggle. Are they gonna adjust it to our actual withholding?
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Oh yeah supposedly the third check is gonna have it all correct, and it will show the current checks deducted as basically a payment advance. I'm sure it's still gonna be a total catastrophe for though
 
32andBelow said:
The best part is I was paid for the 1 day and they paid for all my insurance and union dues and then they withheld half of the rest.
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How do they not think that all these variables are not a recipe for a complete disaster. So yea now they got to figure out what to pay me on this third check. “We took 50% from this first back pay check, even though that actually shorted you, but we also paid your health insurance, union dues, and some other deductions in that one day of overtime check. So we are even right?” This is going to be a nightmare.
 
I say this with a bit of trepidation because we work for the government but any payroll software worth half a shit released in the last 20 years will have plenty of capability to figure out what the difference is between what they withheld and what they should have when all the correct information is imported from ART. It's not like payroll is sitting there with an abacus trying to figure out Joe's overtime and night dif.

Again. Not sure what they use but given they pay out all the differentials and premiums every pay period it shouldn't be too hard to recalculate everyone's pay based on the new numbers.
 
mrobs15 said:
I say this with a bit of trepidation because we work for the government but any payroll software worth half a shit released in the last 20 years will have plenty of capability to figure out what the difference is between what they withheld and what they should have when all the correct information is imported from ART. It's not like payroll is sitting there with an abacus trying to figure out Joe's overtime and night dif.

Again. Not sure what they use but given they pay out all the differentials and premiums every pay period it shouldn't be too hard to recalculate everyone's pay based on the new numbers.
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That’s actually kind of a relief. I almost forget they use computers lol. My facility and I’m sure a few others, the T&A person can’t seem to get normal paychecks right so i think that’s the worry. I think ours DOES use an abacus lol
 
the payroll people have been off for over a month. Not only do they have a months worth of work to catch up on, but they have to correct mistakes made in the art, whether they were made by a supervisor at the larger facilities or the BUEs at smaller facilities. They have to verify that mistake you made when you put your trainee as monitoring rather than training that you didn't catch, they have to verify that you should have taken 1:15 of leave rather than 1:16 because you weren't paying attention. they have to make sure overtime assigned was correct and make sure you get paid appropriately. they aren't taking 50% of your check, they are rushing to get you money and for 2 missed paychecks and they are paying you 3 times this week. it not just a computer making sure its right, someone has to make sure its actually correct, because just like them the work force is just as responsible for the accuracy of the ART. yes there will be mistakes, yes you deserve every cent you are owed. give these people some time, hold them accountable but give them until at least after the 12th to make sure you get what you are owed. these people make probably make less than half of most of us and are doing the best they can. under normal circumstances this is difficult and these people are dealing with some of our mistakes and awful guidance at best. this isn't some grand conspiracy to screw us over and if it is its not because of some administrative assistant.
 
Electricfence said:
the payroll people have been off for over a month. Not only do they have a months worth of work to catch up on, but they have to correct mistakes made in the art, whether they were made by a supervisor at the larger facilities or the BUEs at smaller facilities. They have to verify that mistake you made when you put your trainee as monitoring rather than training that you didn't catch, they have to verify that you should have taken 1:15 of leave rather than 1:16 because you weren't paying attention. they have to make sure overtime assigned was correct and make sure you get paid appropriately. they aren't taking 50% of your check, they are rushing to get you money and for 2 missed paychecks and they are paying you 3 times this week. it not just a computer making sure its right, someone has to make sure its actually correct, because just like them the work force is just as responsible for the accuracy of the ART. yes there will be mistakes, yes you deserve every cent you are owed. give these people some time, hold them accountable but give them until at least after the 12th to make sure you get what you are owed. these people make probably make less than half of most of us and are doing the best they can. under normal circumstances this is difficult and these people are dealing with some of our mistakes and awful guidance at best. this isn't some grand conspiracy to screw us over and if it is its not because of some administrative assistant.
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Isn't this what our secretary did when they called him in each week? I thought this was done locally at every facility already.
 
Soham said:
Isn't this what our secretary did when they called him in each week? I thought this was done locally at every facility already.
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they were called in to deal with castle. castle is what is used for payroll after info is taken from art. but they were only given a fraction of the normal time it takes to complete accurate payroll along with any other duties required of them. now they are back, DOI is just issuing some pay to get it out because that's what most people are concerned about it (rightfully so) and over the past few days they are going to make sure things are accurate and Fridays and the Feb 12th paycheck will be their attempt to make everyone whole.
 
"Pay Period 03:

Pay period 03 will include pay for January 20 to February 2, 2019, and any retroactive pay for regular hours for pay periods 01 and 02. Overtime and premium pay for pay periods 01 and 02 will be paid on February 26, 2019, pay period 04 payday."

Directly from HR.
 
Electricfence said:
"Pay Period 03:

Pay period 03 will include pay for January 20 to February 2, 2019, and any retroactive pay for regular hours for pay periods 01 and 02. Overtime and premium pay for pay periods 01 and 02 will be paid on February 26, 2019, pay period 04 payday."

Directly from HR.
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What a load of shit. So much for being made whole as quickly as possible
 
Paperwork for the FLSA lawsuit NATCA filed against the US Government earlier this month arrived in my mailbox this afternoon.

I guess it’s worthwhile to join in, if anything will come of it?
 
So which check is supposed to include our holiday pay that we missed for Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Years, and MLKJr day? Does that come in the 3rd check that has all of our differentials on it?
 

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