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Federal Employees Should Not Give Up Just Yet
American Thinker ^ | 18 Oct, 2021 | Dave Matthews

Posted on 10/18/2021 3:16:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Federal employees have been given until November 22 to be fully vaccinated. Information on how the mandate would be implemented was slow in coming and is still not very clear to most employees or to the HR personnel tasked with carrying out the implementation. Employees in some agencies were asked to complete a vaccine attestation and request an accommodation, if applicable, only after the agencies had announced the first deadline (October 11) for the first jab of the Moderna two-dose vaccine (October 18 is the deadline for the first jab of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine) necessary to meet the mid-November deadline.

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There are, however, several factors for federal employees to consider when contemplating whether to give in to the vaccine mandates now or to remain unvaccinated. While it may seem that a large percentage of federal employees have attested to being fully vaccinated, it is very important to consider that, statistically speaking, those most likely to be vaccinated are in the older age brackets -- those brackets where the virus thrives best and presents the greatest danger to health and life. Younger workers are much safer than older workers, so it stands to reason that the highest percentage of federal employees receiving the vaccine would be those in the older age groups. According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the average age for non-seasonal full-time permanent employees is 47.5 years and the minimum retirement age in federal service is 57 years. This means that, on average, about half of the nation's federal employees could be a little less than ten years out from retirement. There is no breakdown on the number of employees over age 57 who could retire for any number of reasons, but there have been speculations for years about a mass exodus of retirement-age federal employees.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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To: Psalm 73

Tell them everything is on the front porch

I’ve been wondering about that too. The laptop is the easy part. I have a company vehicle and a storage locker they pay for.

They fire me, they’ll get zero cooperation.


21 posted on 10/18/2021 9:52:11 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Psalm 73

Psalm 73 wrote: “Sure, I know how it SHOULD work, but they (HR) don’t have that information “at present”.”

It’s nice to be retired.


22 posted on 10/18/2021 11:39:37 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


23 posted on 10/18/2021 7:08:24 PM PDT by sauropod
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