Union says IRS worker absences expected to surge amid shutdown

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The National Treasury Employees Union on Tuesday said Internal Revenue Service (IRS) worker absences are expected to surge amid the partial government shutdown, The Washington Post reported.

Hundreds of IRS employees will likely skip work as part of a coordinated protest as the shutdown continues into its fourth week, National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon and other union officials told the Post.

“They are definitely angry that they’re not getting paid, and maybe some of them are angry enough to express their anger this way,” Reardon told the Post. “But these employees live paycheck to paycheck, and they can’t scrape up the dollars to get to work or pay for child care.”

The Trump administration last week ordered tens of thousands of IRS workers to return to work (without being paid).

Labor groups say that some IRS employees are taking advantage of a provision that allows them to skip work if they suffer "hardship," according to the Post.

“I have fielded no less than 30 to 40 calls, emails or text messages about hardship requests from employees daily since Thursday,” Shannon Ellis, president of the NTEU’s Chapter 66 in Kansas, told the newspaper.

IRS offices across the country are reportedly experiencing increasing a spike in absences as part of the protest.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426532-union-says-irs-worker-absences-expected-to-surge-amid-shutdown

[at140]

1. Fewer returns can be audited for 2018 taxes?

That is not good. IRS will lose lot more than $5.7 Billion by tax cheating.

[RainCaster]

2. How many branches of our government will be hamstrung by DFT?

So much of the Coast Guard is shut down by this irresponsible Orange Shit stain. The State Department has been fucked since the day he came in to office. Treasury is hosed. HUD, FEMA, FAA, and many others are also inoperatove. Nobody benefits from this excerpt Russia.