The U.S. House version of the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021” – a $1.9 trillion emergency aid package to help America recover from the coronavirus pandemic has an extra perk for federal workers: Enhanced paid time off if your child is enrolled in a school that isn’t back to full-time, in-classroom instruction.
Critics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats. It is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers.
While millions of parents struggle to work from home with kids who are enrolled in shuttered or partially shuttered schools, and millions more left the workforce or lost jobs to care for their at-home children, evidently parents in the federal bureaucracy need their own, personal Covid-19 bailout.
Buried on page 305 of the House bill released late last Friday night (included after the bailout details for states and localities), is a new Treasury Department fund called the “Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund.”
$570 million in the new fund is available through September 30. Federal employees caring for others due to Covid-19 are eligible for paid leave. Among those eligible are those who are “unable to work” because they are caring for school-aged children not physically in school full time “due to Covid-19 precautions[.]”
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This is pure and simple handouts to gov.co.
Gov.co is already the largest employer and now they are getting hand-out upon hand-out, while the small businesses get threatened, shut down, fined, targeted or other. It is now Government actively and agressively targeting We the People.
"that to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers by the consent of the governed that whenever any Form of Goverment becomes destructive of the ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."
the proof to the pudding the Democrats are playing God.
ANOTHER MIND TWISTING UNIMAGINEABLE BUNCH OF HOG SHIT..! That is what a Marxist / Communist Dictating Regime will do in order to have people being paid enough to keep pushing their Communist Agenda..! (Those Are And Will Be The Bastards To Say: "Well, It Ain't That Bad"..)..!!! Stupid Fuckers..! No..! Not That Bad For Them That Are Making $200,000.00 And Up A Year With Insurance and Plenty Of More Perks Like This One..!!! They WON'T Say A Word About Being Unfair Because They ONLY Care About Their Own Selves..!!! The Fuckers Will Enforce ANYTHING They Are Told To Enforce..!
WELL SAID
ARE WE GETTING TIRED YET AMD MAD ????? I AM
Ah yes - Federal Employees who probably were working all the time that many people were not, are getting paid for nothing. Oink Oink Oink! The dems certainly know who to stick a knife in the back of the honest hard working people of the USA.