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By law they have to be paid for the furloughed time in the case of a shutdown, since 2019. Previously, they were typically paid for that time whether they had t
by Jtsummers 2y ago
By law they have to be paid for the furloughed time in the case of a shutdown, since 2019. Previously, they were typically paid for that time whether they had to work through the shutdown or not but it was not guaranteed.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12251 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12251
- ryandrake 2y agoWho's going to enforce that law?
- Jtsummers 2y agoThat's a good question, perhaps it should be posed to the members of the so-called party of law and order.
- mandevil 2y agoThe employees, suing in Federal court, since they have a clear and obvious loss to point to, they will have standing. Judges can either obey the law or not. If they don't obey the law, then we are much further along on the authoritarian spectrum then everyone thinks, but so far Musk has lost a lot of court cases and has several emergency injunctions against him doing anything.
- ryandrake 2y agoJudges can write as many judgments as they want, but who's going to enforce those judgments? Only an executive branch that is interested in the rule of law is going to care about judgments.
- Retric 2y agoBeing the head of the executive branch only provides so much actual power here. You need to replace lower level employees as Trump is trying, and at 1% adoption mostly failing to do.