Originally Posted by
GUWonder
There are also lots of news stories about the Secret Service and FBI being hit by the shutdown. But their absentee rates aren’t at 8%. But they also get paid more than the average TSA employee and are more likely to have deeper family financial means to tap than lower wage and lower net worth TSA employees.
There are even some news stories about federal government contractors being hit.
It takes a lot longer for a shutdown to hit a contractor, because they invoice at longer intervals than the federal bi-monthly pay cycle. But with the shutdown now longer than thirty days, many contractors have missed a paycheck as well, so I wonder if some of them will begin work actions as well.
But I'm not surprised that TSOs are among the first to suffer increased sick-outage. Much as we complain about whether they're actually earning their pay, it cannot be denied that they don't make much money, and missing half a month's pay hurts lower-paid workers much more than it does higher-paid workers.