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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 99 points 1 day ago (4 children)

A newly revealed memo from the Office of Management and Budget claims that federal workers forced into furlough during the ongoing shutdown may not receive back pay once the ordeal ends. In open defiance of the law, the administration argues that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not automatically guarantee wages to workers sent home or ordered to labor without compensation. The government that once promised fairness has now declared that those who serve it may be discarded. This is not confusion. It is control.

Eventually people are gonna decide that working for free sucks and they just won't come in.

[–] Sausagecat@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sadly, that is the point. Part of project 2025 is to remove as many workers as they can and when a position needs to be filled, make sure it's a loyalist. This is just the means to an end for the fascist.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

when a position needs to be filled, make sure it’s a loyalist

Mostly inept, incompetent, stupid loyalists.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

It's like the Dead Sea Effect with steps on the end.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can let the seats be empty and stop them from filling it with anyone if the government stays shutdown and we also get the benefit of the armed forces and ice not being paid so they will stop kidnapping people

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Are you kidding? That's their fucking dream job. They'd even pay just for the privilege. Fucking pigs

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should be minute 1. Unpaid work is slavery

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No it's not. It's wage theft, plain and simple

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's wage theft except the part where they're forcing them to work.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They could just quit. For some positions, you can't strike, which is bullshit enough, but you can just say fuck you I quit

No one will put you in chains and lock you to your desk, it's not legal to retaliate

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah sure, everybody CAN just quit.

"It's not legal to retaliate"? Motherfucker when has this administration cared about what's legal, they're talking about making people work and then not giving them back pay.

Even before the trump administration's it's not as if the labour market was fair lol.

Why are you going to bat for people trying to enslave workers exactly?

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 5 hours ago

Because, motherfucker, I want them to quit. They are not slaves to the state, and when things break because of their absence that's great politically

And we have a name for this already - wage theft. I hope every employee, furloughed or still working, puts forward a lawsuit

I'm not about to pressure people to quit because the job market is hell right now, but I'm sure as hell going to remind them it's an option

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago

gee I wonder why air traffic controllers are getting sick.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

I think the worst part is that Trump openly flirted with paying only the people he likes - his MAGA folks, and only the parts of government he likes. You work on wind turbine safety? No pay for you.