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State Employees Laid Off One Day Per Week Will Get That $600 Per Week Federal Boost
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 5/22/2020 | not listed

Posted on 06/02/2020 2:05:19 PM PDT by cva41

On May 13, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that 31,000 state employees will be laid off for two days per pay period [one day a week], starting May 27 and running through July 25. This arrangement takes advantage of a federal program known as Work Share to reduce costs in the face of huge revenue shortfalls caused by the COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: kag; maga; michigan; trump; whitmer
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This is old, but first I have heard of it. State employees laid off one day a week to be able to collect the magic 600 dollars per week.
1 posted on 06/02/2020 2:05:19 PM PDT by cva41
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Probably save us money.


2 posted on 06/02/2020 2:08:47 PM PDT by Raycpa
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That is so damned WRONG!!!!!


3 posted on 06/02/2020 2:08:57 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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Uh-may-zing.

No doubt they'll get paid retroactively for those missed days at some point.

4 posted on 06/02/2020 2:09:23 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Our governments are a money racket, for leaders and workers, plain and simple.
And we tax-paying, law-abiding, patriotic workers are the schmucks.
I think I’ve had enough now. Time to end it.


5 posted on 06/02/2020 2:09:34 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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Well, that’s $78 per hour for each of those 8 non-work hours. What a scam!


6 posted on 06/02/2020 2:10:02 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT.)
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To: cva41

More than one way to loot.


7 posted on 06/02/2020 2:11:11 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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that amount would be multiplied by 31,000 +/- state employees.


8 posted on 06/02/2020 2:11:46 PM PDT by cva41
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I am a state employee (not Michigan) and this pisses me off!!!!!!


9 posted on 06/02/2020 2:12:35 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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so the articles is actually accurate?


10 posted on 06/02/2020 2:14:01 PM PDT by cva41
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sorry. misread. thought you said you were Michigan employee.


11 posted on 06/02/2020 2:17:52 PM PDT by cva41
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The feds should stop it, take the funds back.


12 posted on 06/02/2020 2:20:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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If I WAS a Michigan employee I'd still be pissed off!

Hell, I tried to return the stimulus payment. I was told on the phone that it didn't work like that, and that I had to keep it.

So with the stimulus I bought myself a new PC rig to replace the cheap Windows 7 machine that was on its last legs. At last I can play Fallout 4. Don't worry the entire setup was made in America :-P

13 posted on 06/02/2020 2:21:13 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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Sickening isn’t it. When Half Whit announced the furloughs we thought now we’ll see some action since it’s hitting Government employees. Huh they get three day weekends and get $600 dollars a week to fund it.


14 posted on 06/02/2020 2:24:14 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Fledermaus

I agree. but someone must have designed the legislation with this in mind.


15 posted on 06/02/2020 2:24:51 PM PDT by cva41
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Remember, we’re all in this together! /s


16 posted on 06/02/2020 2:26:10 PM PDT by PTBAA
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ANd, those state workers were automatically signed up for unemployment, they did not have to go thru the hell that is signing up. She did it for then, cos they’re more important than the rest of us.


17 posted on 06/02/2020 2:26:46 PM PDT by blu (Bagster's ping on the side)
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Agree


18 posted on 06/02/2020 2:28:10 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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Wow! The Witch is making the rest of us in America pay her employees...


19 posted on 06/02/2020 2:28:11 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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it really is. Why would you partially lay off an “essential” employee just to scam the rest of the taxpayers.


20 posted on 06/02/2020 2:28:37 PM PDT by cva41
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