Posted on 03/02/2021 1:13:46 PM PST by gattaca
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which recently passed the House, contains $1400 stimulus checks. But some federal workers will have more than one check. They can get paid time off with up to 15 checks of $1400 each.
Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund
Neatly tucked within the $1.9 trillion emergency aid package is the $570 million Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund. This budget is exclusive for federal workers who need to stay home to tend to their kids. Thus, this will fund the paid time off for federal workers with children enrolled in schools yet to return to in-classroom instruction. “If the school or place of care of the son or daughter has been closed, if the school of such son or daughter requires or makes optional a virtual learning instruction model or requires or makes optional a hybrid of in-person and virtual learning instruction models, or the child care provider of such son or daughter is unavailable, due to Covid-19 precautions;” according to the guidelines.
Critics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats. It comes as a time when millions of American parents struggle to manage households between remote work and remote schools. Meanwhile, millions more had to leave their jobs to care for kids stuck at home.
$1400 Stimulus Checks Until September 30 The $570 million funds are available until September 30. Full-time federal employees can use up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30. This means paid leaves up to $35 an hour or $1,400 a week. This means qualified federal workers can get up to $1,400 checks a week for 15 weeks. In addition, part-time and seasonal employees can avail of the fund as well. Their agencies will establish equivalent hours.
Presently, federal employees have up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Workers can use this for birth, foster placement, or adoption of a new child. In addition, the Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund did not set age limits for kids that are homeschooling. Critics point out that parents of college-aged children can use this for paid time off. In addition, if schools are conducting hybrid or optional virtual learning, parents can still qualify for the fund. However, parents with children enrolled in schools that already opened are ineligible.
Disingenuous Insertion Asked to explain the legislation, Democrat Representative Carolyn Maloney (NY) said last Friday that the Covid-19 relief legislation expands emergency leave for federal and postal workers. She said the measure means federal workers won’t need to “choose between their jobs or caring for loved ones who get infected with coronavirus,” which is an odd thing to say. The provisions for the fund do not mention anything about caring for infected family members.
Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, which is a conservative 501 organization, criticized the measure. “Wow. The BidenBucks bill pays federal employees up to 15 weeks of paid leave at $1400 per week if they have to stay home to virtual school kids,” he said. “You get $1400 once. They get it every week for 15 weeks. Swamp takes care of swamp,” he added.
Watch the Bloomberg Quicktake video reporting that the Senate may take up Biden’s $1.9 Trillion stimulus bill on Wednesday:
Payoffs for the Federal workers who spent the past four years as part of the Resist movement.
You know why. I'm sorry you didn't get every single thing on your wish list, but you know perfectly well that if the DemocRATs have their way, you won't have any need for National Reciprocity because you will have nothing to carry.
>> I am on my way to using Bilatons.
When billing the Guvernm’nt, always always always bill a ton.
More and more FedGov begins to resemble The Capital of Panem in Hunger Games; elitist and detached from the mundane concerns of its “subjects”, such as affording food or being able to work.
This is a bit confusing. Most Federal workers cannot have more than 240 hours of annual leave left in their accounts at the end of the year or they lose everything over that amount. Some might have additional sick leave to use also. This program only seems to make any sense if you are a Federal worker who has used up most or all of your annual leave already.
Someone please explain to me why I should continue paying for this s**t.
The Democrats paying off their unionized minions in the bureaucratic swamp which is the Federal government. Of course the Unions will launder the money and send millions back to the Democrats, as usual.
certain people are over-represented as federal employees
i ain’t sayin, i’m just sayin
“Well, I used to calculate how large in kilotons one needed to cure the DC problem. Given how many of them are up there, I am on my way to using Bilatons.”
kilotons, megatons, gigatons
More bennies for those who have kids.
Crimeny, I and many other Federal workers go to work everyday. We do our jobs, and try to be good stewards of the tax payer’s money. Then this type of $#1t happens. I can’t defend it, and am completely embarrassed. My job is one of those that the Constitution calls for, so I don’t have a problem drawing a paycheck from it. On days like this, though, I really question the morality of staying in my position.
My son went to the Post office to retrieve the title. They can’t find it. Not sure what to do next.
Nah, they used me, lied to me,, conned me and then they did nothing for me. NOTHING. So they’re basically on probation with me. They better hold the effing line.
“It’s The Lore!”
WHAT the...????? They are ALREADY getting paid! What the hell is this??
Notice Biden never promised not to raise taxes during his hardly ever seen campaign.
Got to be repaid for their cooperation in the neutering of Trump
The blast radius of Czar Bomba was not large enough to take out the Metropolitan DC area.
Good response. Keep up the hard work because 15 other government employees are mooching off your efforts. I know it for a fact.
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