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cefromnova t1_j0dhvmk wrote

Reply to comment by dcsnarkington in For You Feds and Those That Follow OPM by ChubsBronco

We were fortunate today and had a govie come in at the normal start time. If that didn't happen, we were told by contract program management that we would have to take PTO for the 2 hours as the government denied allowing us the ability to make up the hours by either adding them to the end of a work day or working a weekend day.

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dcsnarkington t1_j0dnvjz wrote

Yikes man, forcing your employees to take PTO is not great. I'd have my folks do training on overhead or g&a in this circumstance. I'd be unhappy about that.

You know the funny thing about all of this is that the govt doesn't get unspent money back. Once the money is sent over to the KO, and if it's not executed during the contract year the customer agency doesn't get to use that money for anything else. It goes back to the treasury.

Even if we're talking about 100 contractors, 2 hours of unspent labor is at most maybe $30k. This is budget dust to most any agency, however you are doing material damage to the personal finances of your contractors.

Some organizations are dicks. I have folks who had literally no accomodations during COVID from the beginning pre-vax. Nothing. Just keep coming in... while the govt all changed to telework. Irresponsible disregard for health and safety

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cefromnova t1_j0dzc6o wrote

Yep, I was on a contract like that during COVID. I worked in the office the entire pandemic, no telework allowed. We were even forced to do shift work because COVID protocols would not allow for all of us to be present in the office at the same time.

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