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Federal workers could get double pay if there's a shutdown
Washington Examiner ^ | Jan. 18, 2018

Posted on 01/18/2018 12:55:37 PM PST by deplorableindc

A partial government shutdown could result in double pay for hundreds of thousands of federal workers if Congress and President Trump don’t quickly agree to a spending package.

Federal funding runs out midnight Friday and a General Services Administration pay period ends the next day, meaning a shutdown lasting even one day — through Saturday — could trigger penalties under a Great Depression-era law.

If employees aren’t paid on time, the Fair Labor Standards Act allows "liquidated damages" that could double a worker's pay.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: shutdown
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1 posted on 01/18/2018 12:55:37 PM PST by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

And not having to work either.

Double dipper for federal “workers.”


2 posted on 01/18/2018 12:56:54 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: deplorableindc

I really wonder what Trump has up his sleeve on this.

Somehow is he going to make sure the Congress Critters don’t get paid?


3 posted on 01/18/2018 12:58:41 PM PST by Gamecock (The greatest threat to humanity is not "out there" but "in here" in the recesses of the soul. TK)
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To: deplorableindc

Or they might never get paid.

Marco Polo


4 posted on 01/18/2018 12:59:56 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: deplorableindc

That never happens. Where did they dig this up?


5 posted on 01/18/2018 1:05:32 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: deplorableindc

Paying federal workers 2X to stay home would be a bargain.


6 posted on 01/18/2018 1:05:53 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: deplorableindc

Shutdowns don’t save money. They are enormously unpopular, and the press always blames the Republicans no matter what. And they accomplish nothing politically either.


7 posted on 01/18/2018 1:06:44 PM PST by babble-on
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To: deplorableindc

Not to get off subject, but is anyone here this? My father just called me saying they found “earth shattering evidence” of illegal acts by Democraps to harm Trumps Presidency and news of this will be released soon. I mean DUH! of course there is evidence but nothing is done about it, but he said it was something he heard that will blow everything out of the water, obvious hand in the cookie jar stuff. Hmmmm.


8 posted on 01/18/2018 1:06:59 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: deplorableindc

Total madness.They’re already getting paid vacation.

Trump needs to start fixing Washington.


9 posted on 01/18/2018 1:10:02 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: deplorableindc

How about we just fire them instead?


10 posted on 01/18/2018 1:13:06 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: deplorableindc

Is the journalist certain that this “double pay” isn’t simply the additional “back pay” non-essential workers get after the shutdown expires?


11 posted on 01/18/2018 1:16:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Happy New Year! Screeeeewwwww 2017!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Not to get off subject, but is anyone here this? My father just called me saying they found “earth shattering evidence” of illegal acts by Democraps to harm Trumps Presidency and news of this will be released soon. I mean DUH! of course there is evidence but nothing is done about it, but he said it was something he heard that will blow everything out of the water, obvious hand in the cookie jar stuff. Hmmmm.

There has been some buzz out there for awhile now with all the Q Anon stuff. I hope they are correct.

CGato

12 posted on 01/18/2018 1:18:55 PM PST by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: deplorableindc

I heard someone say PDJT gets to determine what services are non essential. He could either declare none, or he could designate State Department, EPA, and Education, or he could decide 10% of ever agency is non-essential


13 posted on 01/18/2018 1:22:01 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Conservative Gato

He heard it’s about to blow wide open, I hope. Maybe it’s a recording of B. Hussein, Comey, Lynch or Hillary planning to do Trump in? We know that’s what happened, but maybe it’s something that is so hardcore evidence wise it will be impossible to ignore.


14 posted on 01/18/2018 1:23:44 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: deplorableindc

This is BS. Political views aside, these workers have earned the pay through the 19th. The Continuing Resolution they are currently in that runs out tomorrow midnight, allows for the fedgov to pay their workers for all work through tomorrow midnight. Simply because there’s one extra day to worry about means nothing. Only those who were scheduled to work on Saturday are affected. None of the others would be.


15 posted on 01/18/2018 1:26:44 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: deplorableindc

Shame on Congress! Shame, shame, shame! We KNZoW what you are doing! We know! We know!

NO WALL!!!! No daca!


16 posted on 01/18/2018 1:47:14 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Is this what Sara Carter was hinting at last week?


17 posted on 01/18/2018 1:51:39 PM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: deplorableindc

During the 42 years I was a ‘federal employee,’ the first 20 as an active duty Army enlisted and officer, and another 22 as a Department of the Army civilian historian, I never received any ‘double pay’ for the times the government shut down. For the active duty military they can continue to be paid under the 1861 Feed and Forage Act which is still public law: https://www.foreffectivegov.org/sites/default/files/budget/feedandforageact.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_and_Forage_Act


19 posted on 01/18/2018 3:19:41 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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What a clueless idiot. The only way Federal workers would not be paid Friday is if they have to receive a physical paycheck from someone in the office where they work. For all employees who have direct deposit, the money will be credit to their accounts first thing tomorrow morning.

All payments for services performed prior to Friday are already qued up in the computers.


20 posted on 01/18/2018 3:38:43 PM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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