• TheDuffmaster@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Some departments in the US government give you a paid time off day every week to use however you want. A lot of people would take every Friday off, or some would stash them for a longer vacation.

    It’s wild to me how internally the government offers the kind of benefits politicians should’ve pushed into law a long time ago. It really is “for Me, not for Thee”.

    Source: worked in one of those departments

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      8 months ago

      Some departments in the US government give you a paid time off day every week to use however you want. A lot of people would take every Friday off, or some would stash them for a longer vacation.

      Nope.

      Source: worked in one of those departments

      If you did, you had no idea what was going on.

      An agency can’t just “give” someone twice the leave accrual as the max. People were probably doing 4 days a week, 10 hours a day.

      And you just didn’t understand

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      8 months ago

      Giving a benefit to government workers only requires a president to write an executive order.

      Making a benefit into a law that affects all workers requires the House, Senate, President, and SCOTUS to all get on board.