The Daily Signal reports that from fiscal years 2011 to 2013 the Environmental Protection Agency paid $17,550, 100 in paid administrative leave salaries for 69 employees.
Beside the full salaries, these workers also got health benefits, and the leave counted towards their pensions.
Oh, and they also continued to climb the federal pay scale.
They also got vacations and sick days which leads us to the Zen question “Can you get vacation when you are on vacation?”
One of the workers was on paid leave for over four years, The Daily Signal said. He or she should certainly send a thank you note to President Obama.
Pretty sweet.
Paid administrative leave is supposed to be a punishment.
Who says the federal government can’t be cut?