re: New Orleans city workers to receive reimbursement for furloughs

Unemployment office should be calling then to get reimbursed for any benefits paid while they were on furlough.

I was put on part time and had most of my peers on furlough, do they get paid too? Stop your bitching, we all suffered from this bullshite no let’s open it up and move on.

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They threw is a bone.

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Handout. That is the word you're looking for

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I mean we did work thru the pandemic and not ask for a single thing. We worked with so many positive patients, hundreds of us got sick, we had expired equipment, not enough equipment. And we just kept showing up, because we had to.

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That's your job dude.

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Call it a bonus or whatever makes you happy.

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I'll call it a handout because that's exactly what it is

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I was just sharing some good news for your public safety workers who normally are getting shite on.

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And bad news for taxpayers, many of which were in the same exact situation as you yet will never recover their lost wages.

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Imagine being suspended from work for two weeks without pay for no reason

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Literally just happened to untold millions of people for a lot longer than 3 days who aren't getting a dime from their city government...

GTFOH with this nonsense.

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Personally I don’t care that much about firefighters/policeman making an extra paycheck but you gotta understand that coming on here and bragging about getting paid for a relatively small number of days for work that you didn’t work from tax dollars paid by people who own small businesses or restaurant workers or shop workers who were mandated by the government to reduce hours/close for much longer periods of time didn’t get near the restitution that you received might be upset

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Whoa, slow down hoss. Throw in a period or comma every now and then.

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Literally just happened to untold millions of people for a lot longer than 3 days who aren't getting a dime from their city government...

GTFOH with this nonsense.

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shite, my wife is a nurse, and they can get put on standby at anytime. That means she doesn't go into the hospital, and isn't paid anything for that time.

We don't get that paid back, she picks up an extra shift the next week to make up for it. OP can kick rocks.

My job and hours didn't change at all and I ate a 10% pay cut.

frick your 72 hours.

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We didn’t file a claim, the city decided to give us our money.

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It was your choice to not file for unemployment for those 3 days (you would have been entitled to a portion of it). My issue is for those city employees that collected unemployment and will still get this money. If they are going to pay employees for this time, IMO, they should make the employee prove they did not receive unemployment income during the same time frame.

But, the point for most of your responses; you are not entitled to this money. You admittedly did not work. It sucks that you didn't have an opportunity to work your shifts and missed out on this income; but that was one of the major reasons for them changing the unemployment rules during COVID. You could have applied and received something; lucky for you the local governments are getting bailed out with federal funds to pay for this lost time. The issue with this is any non-government employee's only recourse was the state unemployment, federal unemployment, and stimulus checks; which were all available to you.

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We didn’t file a claim, the city decided to give us our money.

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You should thank us for paying you not to work.

You do understand that we gave you OUR money for time you didn’t work right? The money is taxes that WE paid.

Show some respect

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So, you get time off from work, collect unemployment, then get your salary paid anyway.

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They were furloughed partial time and could not collect unemployment