Why do federal workers receive back pay after a shutdown or furlough?

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Anonymous wrote:What about the other side of the equation? Tax payers are paying for services not rendered during the shutdown, is that fair to the tax payers?

What about the workers who will be forced back indefinitely without pay to keep Social Security running? You probably voted for these right-wing nuts and yet you still get your government handouts while other people are hurting. Is that fair?

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Anonymous wrote:What about the other side of the equation? Tax payers are paying for services not rendered during the shutdown, is that fair to the tax payers?

What about the workers who will be forced back indefinitely without pay to keep Social Security running? You probably voted for these right-wing nuts and yet you still get your government handouts while other people are hurting. Is that fair?

the only people who don’t get paid are contractors because they didn’t work .

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Anonymous wrote:A great solution to this would be to stop paying legislators *and their staffs* for the duration of the shutdown. My guess is we would see no more shutdowns!

The staff won't be getting paid during the shutdown.

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Does it make sense to pay backpay for shutdowns? Not really. But shutdowns themselves don't make sense.

It's basically a lockout - an employer telling its employees that they can't work, can't take another job, and have to return as soon as they declare. Yet it's not sensible to pay? Yeah, I get it - the employees in many cases aren't going actual work for the government (legally they can't) but the employer is specifically telling them not to work even though they continue to be employed.

Just so it's clear - it's not like a vacation. You can't plan anything around it. You don't know until midnight on Sept. 30 that it's starting, and it could last an hour, a day, a week, a month. And you're not getting paid. Who could just go off and have fun during that period.

It's horribly inefficient to be sure - I'd rather work for my pay than not - but it is entirely because Congress and the President can't get their acts together (obviously the blame falls more specifically in each shutdown). If nothing else, federal employees should get paid as recompense for the big FU C and P give them every so often.

Not the President's job. President asks for the moon. Congress gives whatever they decide.

The 35 day shutdown was quite clearly the President's fault. Both houses (president's party) had passed bills that he refused to sign because they didn't contain money for a border wall.