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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your husband's contract covered under the [b]service contract act[/b]? If it is they are required to offer the role to the incumbents (not at the same salary though), there are required benefit allowances, etc. He should absolutely not travel without being covered by benefits, including proof of workers comp and life insurance and absolutely not front any money. He will not get it back.

Honestly in this situation I would not join this Comoany. I would make getting a new job his FT job. He can hustle at night and drive Uber or deliver pizza. Do you work? What type of benefits do you get?[/quote]

OP here. It must be - it is a services contract. So maybe that answers the question of why even bother offering people these jobs at such low salaries. They've fulfilled the requirement of offering the role to the incumbents, but at salaries no one could possible accept (seriously: senior managers, retired Colonels, being offered 50K). I imagine they have their own people waiting in the wings and they're expecting pretty much everyone to bail.

I'm not employed full time right now. I left the fed gov three years ago to stay at home with our daughter; I freelance 20 or so hours a week so no benefits and it's not enough to pay our bills. I wish that weren't the case but it's just where we are right now. We're not ruling out me going back to work (I was making more than he was when I left, so it would make things easier financially) but we're trying to give this a couple more weeks. He has some promising leads; he just needs to bring in a salary (and benefits) until something concrete comes through. If the travel thing weren't an obstacle, it wouldn't be so bad. He's doing his job, using whatever spare time he has to job hunt and interview, and he's got a salary and benefits (albeit crappy) until he gets a better offer.

I know he doesn't want to rock the boat by refusing to travel but I guess not wanting to rock the boat sort of got us here in the first place  :( [/quote]

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