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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The US taxpayer should not pay for your maternity leave or child care.  Go private employer.[/quote]

How does it cost anything? You were already paying the salary. It’s not like they’re hiring a temp to cover the work. They just share the work between the other employees [/quote]

Before this ridiculous law passed, you didn’t get paid when you weren’t working.  Now you do.  The fact that you don’t understand this explains why you’re a fed.[/quote]

Since sometime in the Obama administration (I don’t remember exact year) you are supposed to be advanced sick and/or annual leave. So yes, people were getting paid, albeit not able to take their regular accrued leave for a long time while paying back the debt. [/quote]

So?  The law allows people to take more paid time off.  That costs money.  I’m not sure what you don’t understand.[/quote]

I’m not sure why you don’t understand that this was already happening. Agencies were directed by President Obama (to the extent possible) to advance paid leave. People were already getting 12 weeks of “paid” leave, again, that they had to pay back. But their salary was still being paid for that time and they were still being paid for the time they accrued back the leave - so largely, this is the same deal without having to pay back the leave.

The difference between what is already happening in a lot of cases and this is quite nominal. I can’t for the life of me understand why people are so bitter and selfish. And I’m speaking as someone who will probably never take advantage of this benefit! [/quote]

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