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posted January 21, 2018 11:53 AM
I’ve been a government employee now for two years. I work full time but I don’t have any job security because I’m considered a contract employee. Basically every three months or so my manager tells me he’s gonna need me for another few months, and so on.
The way you get full time permanent is to wait until a spot opens up and then go in front of a panel to apply.

I asked hr that since I’ve been there two years, do I have any vacation time? (I started getting benefits a year in).
I see people taking tons of time off and I never have.
Hr gets back that I’ve been classified as “on call” (despite working full time hours for two years) and so I have a total of five days off I can take accrued over the past year.

Better than nothing I guess but damn I thought I could take some time off by now.
 
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posted January 21, 2018 12:18 PMHide Post
OP, you might want to do some digging around at this site...

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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...


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posted January 21, 2018 12:31 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by GWbiker:
OP, you might want to do some digging around at this site...

quote:
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...


He's in Soviet Canukistan, so that wouldn't apply to him.



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posted January 21, 2018 02:43 PMHide Post
Be happy you have benefits. If you are not a political appointee and do not have connections that is how the system works. The government allows it to happen.
 
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posted January 21, 2018 07:53 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
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Originally posted by GWbiker:
OP, you might want to do some digging around at this site...

quote:
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...


He's in Soviet Canukistan, so that wouldn't apply to him.


Heh, true.
I have to look through the collective agreement on Monday. I looked up law and it says full time employees by law get two weeks off a year. But it might say something different in collective agreement for our union.
 
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