What A Country! Federal Works Paid NOT To Work.

Feds paid thousands of workers to stay home

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk

Over the course of three years, the federal government paid workers about $775 million to stay home, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.

The GAO report reveals that 57,000 federal workers were paid not to work for a month or longer between October 2010 and September 2013. Aside from receiving pay, the sidelined workers continued to accrue pensions, time off and opportunities for pay scale increases.

Via The Washington Post, which originally obtained the forthcoming GAO report:

The GAO report almost certainly understates the extent and cost of administrative leave because the figures examined by the auditors were incomplete. Not all government agencies keep track of the practice, and those reviewed account for only about three-fifths of the federal workforce.

The Office of Personnel Management rule book lists dozens of reasons for allowing paid leave, such as donating an organ, house-hunting before a job transfer, and attending the funeral of a relative in the military. Snow days also are permitted.

But these require only a few hours or days — not the months and years that GAO discovered are common at more than 100 federal agencies including the Defense and Treasury departments.