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Yes, and I was. I spend 18 years in engineering and I was paid every time the company shut down for whatever reason they shut down.
And America is heralding how much sense it makes when GM is now doing it. Shutting plants to save money and paying workers while not working. The consensus of public opinion is building for doing that with their tax dollars. I can hear the roar now of support.
More and more places are not straight salary in the sense that you get paid no matter how many days/hours you are there.
Even 'salaried' employees have banks of PTO to use for either sick days or vacation. And they get paid overtime.
I guess it depends on the company; maybe the industry. We don't have to bank sick days. They're unlimted. At the same time, they're rarely used ime.
Interesting. This is not the first I have heard of the NC furloughs. What on earth is going on in NC?
Not just North Carolina but elsewhere. Teacher salaries are funded by the state so furloughs are state wide. In addition it is a non union state so the governor can just annonce. It is the economy. If there had been no stimulus it would have been much worse across the board. Many local districts are discussing furloughs.
These days will be treated as Emergency Days in Illinois schools and will be made up at the end of the school year. Five days are built into the school calendar each year and any additional missed days will be added after those, unless there are waivers made available by the legislature.
I find the survey offensive. Most teachers are not sitting home or vacationing when school is closed for any reason other than scheduled breaks. Most of us are using that time to plan future assignments. If the State orders schools closed for any reason, teachers are paid and students usually do not make up the time. Teachers usually have to make up the time as per contract.
I am a teacher in Milwaukee, WI. I was called this morning and told not to report until further notice. I subbed one day (I have to sub one day in a two week period) at a school that was closed as of Friday. I am very concerned about if I am going to get paid for this week that I am off. My fear is that my regular school might get closed and I would have to be off even longer! Some of us do not want to be out of work! I have lots of things going on! Teachers cant receive unemployment! Ever!
I find the survey offensive. Most teachers are not sitting home or vacationing when school is closed for any reason other than scheduled breaks. Most of us are using that time to plan future assignments. If the State orders schools closed for any reason, teachers are paid and students usually do not make up the time. Teachers usually have to make up the time as per contract.
My sister in law works at a school at is closed and she thinks that the state will just allow for a shorter school year and she will end up being paid the same. She is using the time for a vacation in the southeast US. Most of the other teachers think it is a big joke and are using the time as a vacation.
A relative of mine was just told that she would be on a paid vacation for the next two weeks and possibly more. There was a case of the swine flu at her school and they decided to close the school. According to school officials all staff and teachers will be paid anyway, on the tax payers dime. She is happy about that and has decided to take that long vacation to Hawaii she has always dreamed about.
If your employer shut the office or factory due to the swine flu for a few weeks would you expect to be paid?
Wow, another topic, directly out of the headlines, and another relative, how coincidental?!?!?!?! I'm amazed at your family tree!
Teachers have a contract that they have to teach/work for 187 or 188 days of the year. They can take their pay either total for that period time, approximately 9 months, due to Christmas and Spring break, or divide it for the whole 12 months. They have built into that, normally, 5 sick days from their district, and 5 sick days from their state, and then, in addition maybe 2 or 3 days which are designated as "Bad Weather" or "Snow" days, according to which part of the US you live in. So, your, so called relative, is going to take a "last minute" trip to Hawaii, on a teacher's salary, in May? Forgive me if I'm just a little doubtful. Reservations for a plane, hotel, cost, one week, 2 people $4,000, must be nice to be able to just throw that down on a whim in this day and time in a bad economy.
No wonder they call you the "Weakened Traveler"
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