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Trump aides made a late request to Team Biden to extend their parental leave. They said no.
Politico ^ | Daniel Lippman Updated Tue, February 2, 2021

Posted on 02/03/2021 1:46:56 AM PST by 11th_VA

After four years in the Trump administration, Vanessa Ambrosini was looking forward to three months of parental leave when she and her husband welcomed a baby a week before Christmas. The Commerce Department’s human resources office had given her approval for it. But then she was surprised to find out the benefit was no longer available because of the change in administration.

“I got completely screwed,” she said in an interview. “There were no caveats in that language saying anything about if the administration turns, you get nothing and of course, that happened and so I got nothing.”

Ambrosini is among a number of ex-Trump political officials who lost their parental leave when Joe Biden was sworn into office. It’s a byproduct of the field they’re in: Their boss (the president) may have been the one let go, but his departure has meant that they, too, lose their jobs and benefits. Still, they argue that the Biden administration should have honored their leave by keeping them on payroll until the end of it — a request that, emails reviewed by POLITICO show, the Biden transition did not grant.

The Biden White House declined to speak about the issue on record...

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


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1 posted on 02/03/2021 1:46:56 AM PST by 11th_VA
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A pair of married former Trump Homeland Security officials said they had a similar experience. They provided POLITICO with emails showing an agency official telling them that, as political appointees, their parental leave benefits would be treated the same as those for career employees. Their baby was born on Dec. 18. Late at night on Jan. 5, the father got an email from the HR office saying that they had been wrong and that their benefit would end on Jan. 20.
2 posted on 02/03/2021 1:48:14 AM PST by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: 11th_VA

Just to punish Trump and make the point that whomever works for Trump will be punished to the extent the law allows.


3 posted on 02/03/2021 1:49:57 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: 11th_VA

So nice of buying to care about working families right?


4 posted on 02/03/2021 1:54:54 AM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: 11th_VA

If they’re no longer employed there, why should they continue getting paid?


5 posted on 02/03/2021 2:04:45 AM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: 11th_VA

I have a hard time seeing this as an issue to get behind. Anyone accepting a political appointment should be doing so with a temporary mindset and plan and budget accordingly.

Furthermore, receiving 3 months of paid leave for childbirth or adoption on top of any other leave (vacation, sick, personal time off, etc.) is ridiculous. If an employer can get by without you for three months, they don’t need you.


6 posted on 02/03/2021 2:08:44 AM PST by WinMod70
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To: Jonty30

” to the extent the law allows.”

I am pretty sure they don’t stop at the extent of the what the law allows. They are completely lawless.


7 posted on 02/03/2021 2:09:28 AM PST by IgnorerOfLiberals
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To: WinMod70

Totally agree.


8 posted on 02/03/2021 2:10:29 AM PST by IgnorerOfLiberals
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To: Jonty30
Just to punish Trump and make the point that whomever works for Trump will be punished to the extent the law allows.

Since when did the law make any difference to democrats?

9 posted on 02/03/2021 2:19:50 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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Just to punish Trump and make the point that whomever works for Trump will be punished to the extent the law allows.

It’s out and out retaliation, is what it is.

10 posted on 02/03/2021 2:20:24 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: 11th_VA

Zero reason for someone on parental leave to get a larger severance package than anyone else. Jeesh!


11 posted on 02/03/2021 2:49:11 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: WinMod70

Absolutely true.

Plus, while the Trump and now Biden’s admins have made poor scrubs out in the real world of lockdowns if they can survive on unemployment out of it, that should be good enough for admin insiders too.


12 posted on 02/03/2021 2:50:54 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Mother should stay home with baby. If you can’t afford it, don’t get pregnant.


13 posted on 02/03/2021 3:14:57 AM PST by Cowgirl
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To: 11th_VA

No job, no benefits. Elections have consequences.


14 posted on 02/03/2021 4:02:43 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Just to punish Trump and make the point that whomever works for Trump will be punished to the extent the law allows.

She was a political appointee for an administration which is no longer in office. Her job is gone, and her benefits with it. Does anyone really think it would have been different for an Obama appointee in 2017?

15 posted on 02/03/2021 4:04:19 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Mother should stay home with baby. If you can’t afford it, don’t get pregnant.

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That makes entirely too much sense.

My wife and I had 6 children, (Two of them by adoption) I never expected an extra penny from my employer nor did I get it. As a matter of fact, my bosses expected a free cigar and got it.

It hurt my little feelings so much that I worked there for 32 years, until I retired.


16 posted on 02/03/2021 4:16:11 AM PST by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: WinMod70

Meanwhile the Dems are pushing cash payments in their Covid bill for couples making up to $300k per year.


17 posted on 02/03/2021 4:19:33 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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All of this is pure Biden......his ability to use govt to achieve concupiscence is unprecedented.

Here he is ......dying to get it on. Biden doesnt have wet dreams....he signs E/O's.

He gets a sexual thrill signing E/O's undoing all of Trump's work for we, the people.

18 posted on 02/03/2021 4:24:09 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: 11th_VA

Parental (Family) Leave is a load of crap, anyhow. Decide if you’re going to be a parent or a career chick and deal with your choice. Trying to do both gives short shrift to both.


19 posted on 02/03/2021 4:27:38 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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Sooo... If This happened under Obama and Hillary would have won they would have still lost it.

Didn’t think so.

What happened when Trump came in, did the ones on leave then lose theirs as well?


20 posted on 02/03/2021 4:49:19 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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