Boo-hoo ... public sector is now getting to be like private sector, for the last 4 years I have had to give back 24 days a year ... that is nearly a whole months pay!!!
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:27 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Federal Furloughs? What Furloughs? > *Gary North > Posted on August 16, 2013 > > When sequestration was about to kick in, the Obama administration began a > nearly across-the-board campaign to discuss the devastating impact the > automatic cuts would have on agency operations. > > At the center of these warnings stood employee furloughs: mandatory unpaid > leave to help each department meet the lower budget caps that took effect > March 1. Furloughs, combined with hiring freezes, would disrupt the proper > functioning of the government, agency chiefs said, as fewer employees > working fewer hours could not accomplish the same amount as a fully staffed > workforce. > > While many federal agencies have in fact moved forward with furloughs, and > there remain countless examples of sequestration interfering with > government operations, most major departments have reduced furlough days, > or eliminated them altogether. > > The earliest > examples<http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/05/most-promised-furloughs-never-came-year/63329/>came > from departments that told Congress they would have to furlough > employees, but ended up backtracking. The Education and Justice departments > fall into this category. The Agriculture, Transportation and Homeland > Security departments all received authority to transfer funds between > agency accounts, and were therefore able to cancel planned furloughs. The > Commerce Department projected furloughs at its National Oceanic and > Atmospheric Administration, only to cancel > them<http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/06/noaa-cancels-planned-employee-furloughs/64106/>in > May. > > The most significant example of furlough reductions has been the Defense > Department. The Pentagon originally planned to furlough all 750,000 of its > civilian employees for 22 days. It then used reprogramming to trim that > number to > 11<http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/05/most-promised-furloughs-never-came-year/63329/>days, > and more recently through > a > series<http://www.defenseone.com/management/2013/08/how-pentagon-found-1-billion-cut-civilian-furloughs-just-six-days/68192/?oref=search_one%20billion%20furlough%20six>of > cost-cutting measures and inter-service transfer of funds reduced the > days of unpaid leave to six. The furloughs are now estimated to affect > about 650,000 Defense civilians. > > Continue Reading on > www.govexec.com<http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/08/nearly-every-major-agency-has-reduced-furloughs/68660/> > > http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/08/16/federal-furloughs-what-furloughs/ > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- brine http://brineb.blogspot.com/ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
