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I get that. But that includes sick time, vacation, etc...not 44 paid holidays, as the thread title states.
Is that excessive? Probably. But I doubt that every employee gets a month of vacation a year. They likely get 2 weeks, and it goes up with more time on the job. Just like a private sector job.
I get:
13 paid holidays
The week from Christmas to New Years off - generally 3 additional days
10 days sick leave, but would be granted more if needed
Unlimited PTO so long as my work is done and my boss agrees, if I was hourly I would have 25 days vacation
Some of this stuff is just wrong. I'm a hiring manager at a federal agency and it's absolutely false that minorities get hired easier. I've been through roughly 50 hiring panels and not once is there ever any way to hire a minority easier. Never.
It IS out of line, read the whole thread. According to the BLS 10 days is the average PTO for private company.
According to the BLS, the average amount of PTO a private sector worker gets is 10 days after they have completed ONE year of service. This number does not include sick days or paid holidays.
A federal worker who has completed one year of service gets 4 hours of leave per pay period worked. 4 x 26 pay periods is 104 hours/8 hours = 13 days of leave per year. So the comparison here is that federal workers get 3 extra days than the average of PTO for the private sector. So in the private sector, some employees after one year get many more than 10 days of PTO and some get a lot less. But it averages out to 10 days.
So how much vacation days do you folks get? How many paid holidays? How many sick days?
I'm curious as to how this compares to market standards.
I'm not talking small business owners or sole proprietors...I'm talking the norm in the market.
10 holidays
10 sick days
unlimited vacation
In other words, if I need time off, I ask for it and get it. The holidays are basically just mandated vacation days and the sick days are 10 days where I can take time off on short notice/don't need boss' approval.
Yup. And they get promoted easier too. I knew someone with a Master's and around 10 years service who was skipped over so that the black woman she trained, with a bachelor's and six months on the job, could get it. The white woman sued - and WON. She got the higher job and the differential in pay for the entire two years her case was pending.
So you want people to slave away in terrible conditions, with bad benefits and bad pay?
Government work is a job, in fact it is thousands of different types of jobs. Those jobs are subject to competitive forces just as private sector jobs are. Why should anybody work for the government for less (combination of salary and benefits) than the private sector will provide?
PTO and other benefits (insurance, pension) have traditionally been the carrot dangled for someone to turn down a high-paying job in the private sector.
I know very few government employees who actually use all of their PTO. Most bank it for retirement payout.
The entire thing is 100 % bull$**** to please the thugs and liberals that kiss there feet
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