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:
So much for “equal” protection under the Constitution.
It looks like the Feral employees are going to get their PAYBACK for that “80 million votes.”
Rope. We need more rope.
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A special account set up for that purpose WITH MONEY STILL IN IT? That’s a first for the DC crooks. Now I have to go find the link as it opened in another browser..hate that..
“”You might ask, “how can they pay for this, and where is the money coming from?”
Well, it’s apparently due to a new “family leave account” created only for federal employees. And this account holds a whopping $570 million to fund the provision.””
Here’s the link to my above post...
Special people get special treatment. 😏
Gun sales soar
If, and I pray that it is when, the details of the $1.9 Trillion package are disclosed and able to be read by we the people there should be a withholding of tax monies from this profligate government. They plan on printing the money making our money less valuable and nailing a huge percent of citizens, on fixed incomes, poorer.
But wait! The plan is to cover certain “Federal Workers” with $1400 “stimulus checks?” Well isn’t that just ducky?
Thanks a lot you stupid bastards. This is the time to derail their gravy train. End the “Swamp” critter’s largess to themselves! MANY ARE CROOKS, ALL ARE GUILTY BECAUSE THEY ALLOW THE CROOKS TO RUN RAMPANT.
Term Limits and end the retirement on full pay for life.
ENOOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
Forty mile diameter ball of plasma not enough?
Don’t forget WE were the ones paying THEM while WE had our businesses shut down NO INCOME coming in at all AND WE paid them throughout the mess GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!! These bastards are really pushing the envelope they are BEGGING for us to get violent!!!
100 mile radius and now you’re talking.
They actually get set time for annual leave and set time for sick time. If they exhaust those, they don't get paid.
It's a nice benefit, but folks in private industry have been getting unemployment for about a year now.
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