State workers might get paid for shutdown days off

Phila. Inquirer ^ | 07/07/2006 | Jan Hefler

[Gordongekko909]

Triple Congressional pay on the grounds that they don't come in to work... I like where this is going...

[bpjam]

When in American history have government employees EVER (think of that word as bold as you can imagine) been given time off because of a government shutdown and NOT been paid for the, in this case, 6 day July 4th holiday? When???

The government employees are the REASON that NJ is $4.5B in debt and they were protesting in the streets about losing two days pay? Unbelievable. Its like a drug dealer asking to get his drugs back after a liberal judge lets him off the hook for technicality - and the police being ordered to turn over the drugs.

[FMBass]

Unbelievable.

Well, if they are going to pay them, it should come out of the the Gov's and the legislator's salaries.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Was there ever any doubt about this?

[kittymyrib]

Let's see...NJ is broke, so it had to raise taxes, so they will pay 40,000 state employees for an extra week of vacation. I'm sure this makes perfect sense to vote-buying Democrats and their union bosses. Why would any sane person stay in NJ to be a tax slave for these crooks?

[aimhigh]

"We believe that legally the state absolutely has to pay folks for the past week because it was a lockout, which is a breach of the contract,"

What liberal hogwash. It wasn't a lockout, it was a lay off due to lack of cash. Layoffs do occur with union jobs. Someone needs to investigate to see if the Governor and the union conspired on this beforehand.

[napscoordinator]

Not a surprise to me. I knew they would be.

[rocksblues]

Let me get this straight.

Raise taxes for everbody 1%.

Give back .05% to homeowners.

Pay people for not working>

But according to Democrats this is not a tax cut for the rich?