Saturday, June 22, 2013

While IRS Employees anticipate Bonuses, Workers at the country's top facility for Wounded Combat Soldiers anticipate Unpaid Furloughs.

Thousands of civilian workers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center -- the country’s top facility for wounded combat soldiers -- are facing furloughs this summer, as a result of sequester and other federal budget problems, according to the Defense Department. 
Roughly 2,400 workers at the suburban Washington facility were recently notified by letter that the department needs them to take off as many as 11 days without pay this summer to help with “extraordinary and serious budgets challenges.”
The furloughs target a wide scope of non-combat facilities and civilian workers to “provide the war-fighters with what they need to protect national security,” states the May 28 letter, first obtained by Federal News Radio. 
In a development that worries advocacy groups, the furloughs will impact about 94 percent of the Walter Reed civilian staff including doctors, nurses, lab technicians and physical therapists.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is evil.

BOSMAN said...

IRS Bonuses and Veterans Hospital furloughs.

Our wounded warriors and other vets get fucked over again by this administration.

Diane Sori said...

They sure do and it is so unfair.