FEMA to Claw Back Overtime Pay From Employees After Record Number of Natural Disasters

[Fullduplexxx]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that employees who worked extra hours during a string of natural disasters this year will have to return some of their overtime pay.

According to Bloomberg, the claw-back is due to the fact that federal employees have a cap on premium pay and agencies can demand money they paid beyond the maximum be returned via the employees’ future paychecks. Given the multiple devastating hurricanes that hit the Gulf states, the subsequent flooding and the wildfires raging across the Western United States, FEMA has said it might have to start billing the employees who worked around the clock on those matters to reclaim the overtime pay they earned.

One FEMA staffer told Bloomberg that clawing back the money could reduce the willingness of FEMA employees or other Homeland Security staff to sign up for future deployment

http://reverepress.com/news/fema-claw-back-overtime-pay-employees-record-number-natural-disasters/

[NCjack]

1. Instead of making bottom workers in economy subsidize the

cleanups, we should put a special tax for the cost on the upper 1% -- you know, the ones that just got a huge pie slice out of the US Treasury.

[marybourg]

2. They need a Union. nt