Excepted employee time keeping

[Anonymous]

At my DOC agency we are told to enter furloughed in the office time keeping software, but record our time separately — there will be timesheet corrections when reopen.

I received and email that I was excepted but it feels weird entering furloughed into our timesheets?

Why aren’t we just recording our time as worked? Is this correct or is my supervisor a bit adrift?

[Anonymous]

I’m at a different (small) agency and we were told the same thing by our GC. I don’t know the rationale (maybe the time system might accidentally pay us if we enter hours?).

[Anonymous]

I’m exempt. We entered our time in the official record through the end of Sept. I am only approved to work on one project and was told to keep a log on my own of days I work / how many hours I work. Once we reopen, most people will mark their cards furlough and the rest of us will receive instructions.

[Anonymous]

No, your supervisor is correct. You are furloughed but excepted. Agencies have to keep a list with names and positions and why someone is excepted for OMB. So for timekeeping you are furloughed and not paid. For fiscal law purposes, you are excepted and allowed to work in the building.

[Anonymous]

At my agency many employees, both excepted and non-excepted, are listed on their leave and earnings statement as being on LWOP. I wonder if this is a backdoor way to avoid giving us backpay, or making us sue for it.

Excepted staff did raise this to senior leadership who acknowledged this is happening, but didn’t commit to a resolution. A family member is of mine is furloughed at another agency and they were not put in LWOP status.