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Here’s why they need things done soon. They need you in admin status for ten days prior to March 14 when the government will shut down. At that point you will have run out of allowable admin leave and will be resigned [b]because you never signed anything other than you quit[/b]. The payback law doesn’t apply to non-employees. When a deal is finally struck, the remainder of the year appropriations will be for employees on the books. Agencies don’t get funding per person, they get a pile of funding for all employee services. So there won’t be money to pay you. Even if your career agency likes you and feels bad, they need it to pay for the people they still have and won’t be authorized for a payout without a special appropriation.  This is the scam.
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This is a bit too extreme of a take.  I'm probably not taking it, but at my agency, we will have signed a fairly thorough agreement with the agency if we do (much more thorough than the ones posted from, eg, commerce).  Let's base our critiques on what is actually being presented to employees, and how enforceable these agreements are, not broad/vague fear-mongering over getting stiffed.  In my case, the outstanding issues are: 1) there is still an out for the agency to ask you to work in "rare circumstances", which is vague enough that admin leave can still not 100% be relied on during the resignation period, despite suggestions to the contrary in OPM guidance/FAQs; 2) As mentioned, what happens if post March appropriations are significantly lower than current budgets?  Will an agency actually furlough or RIF employees who stayed to pay those who took the fork?  Hard to imaging.  My agency indicates it will take all legally permissible steps to ensure forkers are not subject to furlough or RIF through Sep 30 in its agreement.  That sounds like the agency saying that they will, in good faith, do their best to honor this, but there are clearly limits on what they can commit to, so things aren't fully guaranteed.  E.g., congress could stipulate that appropriated funds can't be used to pay forkers, and the agency won't be able fight that.[/quote]

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