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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honest question: I've heard that in the event of a government shutdown leading to federal workers being placed on furlough, they are eventually compensated for their lost wages once the shutdown concludes. What's the rationale behind this policy? It seems that during the furlough, no productive work is being performed, and the majority, if not all, private contractors do not receive any retroactive compensation. Moreover, the shutdown itself is usually a result of insufficient funding or disagreements regarding future funding.

Just trying to understand, thanks![/quote]

You are trying to understand why people who aren't fired but cant get another job/have to drop everything the moment funding is provided/cant get unemployment in some states/work nights and weekends to make up for the lost time....get retroactive pay?

Really?

Regarding private contractors their employer is the contractor not the government and their employees SHOULD walk out. My contracting company pays us during shutdowns AND has taken out loans during previous ones because it is no fault of ours/theirs/etc.

You should be asking why shutdowns happen or why they continue to happen when nothing gets earned from them besides chaos and confusion. You should wonder why certain factions of a party cant come to a compromise. You should wonder why certain individuals are so negative towards federal government employees and yet, thousands of them working make our country function. You should ask people who work in the federal government what they do and the services they provide so you can understand that there are jobs you cant even conceive of because you don't know the programs exist. For example, lending out bug specimens from the Smithsonian OR data/specimens from previous NIH-funded studies OR audits of certain DOD programs OR providing local HS and college students opportunities to work alongside NIH scientists for credit during the school year or summer terms. [/quote]

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