Posted on 10/26/2016 12:29:05 PM PDT by mdittmar
Federal employees should be granted excused absences to vote on Election Day if polls are not open at least three hours before or after an employee’s regular work shift, the Office of Personnel Management has said in a new memo.
The government has a longstanding policy of granting employees limited time off to vote in federal, state, county, or municipal elections, OPM Acting Director Beth Cobert said in an Oct. 17 memorandum to agency heads.
Generally, the government’s policy is to allow employees to report to work three hours after polls open or leave from work three hours before polls close if an employee’s regular work schedule conflicts with the voting times.
AFGE strongly supports granting excused absences for the purpose of voting in the election and actually believes the government’s policy should go even further, National President J. David Cox Sr. said.
“We believe that Election Day should be a federal holiday for everyone, because after all, nobody should ever have to choose between voting and earning a living,” said Cox.
AFGE recommends that public employees who are represented by a union check their collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). In many of the contracts, AFGE fought to include language that ensures agencies accommodate workers who need additional time to vote on Election Day.
Soaring rhetoric, but not reality.
A LOT of people simply WILL NOT ask for time off work to go vote.
A LOT of employers only play lip service to allowing their employees time to vote.
In this economy, employers hold all the cards, all the power. People are terrified of getting off work for anything.
Conservatives, as usual, as whistling past the graveyard and hold on to the dumbest things.
There is likely to be more traffic on election day and parking further away. As long as you’re in line by 7.
I'm unusual;)
Iraqis vote while being shot at.
That I can manage. I live out in the country with cows for neighbors. Vote at a little community center. Most people around are farmers, so they vote during the day. If there’s more than 3 people in line, it’s a crowd. LOL
It's already being done. How else can a County employee vote for his pay raise?
I’m taking Mon, Tues, Wed off that week anyway. I’ll either be slightly happily drunk, or dead of alcohol poisoning depending on the winner.
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