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But asked about what he meant previously about dealing with workers in “a different way” than backpay, #Trump ducked the question, suggesting reporters would have to find that out for themselves.
#shutdown #law #RepublicansControlAllBranchesOfTheFederalGovernment
#Trump says #backpay for #furloughed #FederalWorkers ‘depends on who we’re talking about’
“There are some people that don’t deserve to be taken care of, & we’ll take care of them in a different way” Trump said without elaborating.
Asked an again about backpay for furloughed federal workers given that the requirement is spelled out in #law, Trump said: “I follow the law, & what the law says is correct.”
#shutdown #law #RepublicansControlAllBranchesOfTheFederalGovernment
“The livelihoods of the patriotic Americans serving their country in the #FederalGovernment are not bargaining chips in a political game,” Kelley added. “It’s long past time for these attacks on federal employees to stop & for #Congress to come together, resolve their differences, & end this #shutdown.”
“It is also inconsistent with the #Trump administration’s own guidance from mere days ago, which clearly & correctly states that #furloughed employees will receive retroactive #pay for the time they were out of work as quickly as possible once the #shutdown is over,” Kelley said.
#Government workers #union president criticizes #OMB backpay memo
“The frivolous argument that federal employees are not guaranteed backpay under the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act is an obvious misinterpretation of the #law,” said Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees
[#AFGE], representing >820,000 workers.