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Re: act of God days

by Hollywood

Mar 28, 2011

I work for CPS. From what I understood, there used to be emergency days built into the calendar, but they no longer do that. The two days we got off for snow were paid out of our deferred pay bank that is used for summer break. So now we have to work two extra days in June to make up that amount. It all evens out in the end. I don't understand what your complaint is. You were essentially paid to stay home and watch TV! Or read, do laundry, play with your kids, shovel snow, whatever. The district just wants you to make up that time. You're still getting paid, right? It's not like they want you to work for free. It's certainly better than the office where my mother works, in which no one was paid for the day the office had to be closed during the blizzard.

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