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Around 12K take USDA buyout as mass firings loom (www.eenews.net)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How can they accept a buyout with money that has not yet been appropriated by congress?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Its not a buyout; its the "deferred resignation plan". its continuing to get payed as normal while being on Admin leave through to september 30, which is the date they agree to resign by by taking the deal.

A lot of people didn't take the first one solely because we were staring down the barrel of a government shutdown less than a month out from it being offerred.

Its mildly preferable to waiting to get fired at random; for anyone with less than 10 years of federal service, its a hell of a lot better than we'd get in severance (at 3 years, id get just about a paycheck and a half, myself).