“To clarify, I’m referring to the partial government shutdown that started on midnight December 21, 2018 and is still ongoing as of today, January 15, 2019, 25 days later. It started low-key – most of the week before Christmas we didn’t really think it would happen because the House and Senate had agreed to a bill we thought was headed for the President’s desk. But throughout the day on that Friday, watching the news, things started to unravel and a shutdown began to seem like something that might actually happen. As contractors supporting the federal government, we go through this drill three times a year every year so we are used to a little drama with an 11th hour continuing resolution being passed and business as usual the next day. Not so this time…”
“What are we doing to help our employees? We allowed employees to go into “negative” PTO to an extent, so they can continue to be paid and avoid taking leave without pay. We also gave back a pot of “use it or lose it” leave that had been forfeited back to the company. And we asked all employees if they would be willing to donate some or their PTO…” Read the full post here.
Source: How the Government Shutdown is affecting my GovCon company – By Rebecca Andino, January 16, 2019. LinkedIn.
