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March 18, 2010
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Hotels
DOT
Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:52 AM
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I will not stay, nor will I direct my employees to stay, at a hotel that compromises the health, welfare, or safety of the employee, no matter what list it appears on. We are on TDY extensively, and on many occasions we have been forced to "walk" due to hotels with insect or rodent infestation; non working elevators / plumbing; on-going construction / renovation; or being in a part of town where you feel like you need a personal firearm just to step out the door. This proposal does demonstate something the Gov't is good at: micromanagement.
comparative costs.
IRS
Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:39 PM
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What kind of stuff have they been smoking? Have they condsidered the total cost, not just the hotel. How about parking, the so called cheap hotel may charge for parking. Also, how about travel costs the commute from the hotel to the place of business. If the training, or whatever, is at a hotel than the employees can't stay at, then the comparative cost, including local travel, (and this could mean a cab in the employee doesn't use his or her own car to the travel site) could exceed the cost of the other hotel.
FedRooms program
Navy
Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:56 AM
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I don't see how requiring employees to use hotels under the FedRooms program will work. Have you gone to their web site and looked at the number of hotels listed in some of the bigger cities? There are only a handful of hotels listed. We have trouble finding places to stay at per diem now, if we are restricted to a limited number of hotels, are they going to change the rules? A. The hotel has to sell you a room at per diem no matter what? or B. is the limit on logging costs going to be waived so we can pay the next available rate? Sounds like one of those GREAT ideas generated by someone who doesn't do much traveling at the last minute!!!!
Govt Mandated Hotels
Exec Branch
Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:33 AM
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A good example of Government-contracted hotels is the Federal Law Enforcement Center in Brunswick Georgia. The Center contracts with local hotels for rooms for class attendees. Attendees have no choice. Twice I had to stay at a filthy, roach-infested hotel to attend classes. I and most of the other attendees complained, but we were told that if we did not want to stay there, we had to pay the full cost of another hotel. Fine, I don't want to travel anyway.
employee child care
HHS
Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:54 PM
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I was the child care coordinator for a large Federal agency. I observed, sadly, how low income employees could not afford the child care center located on the agency campus. The provider rates were so high that even GS 11's and 12's had difficulty paying $325 a week for infant care.
The agency had a child care subsidy program that only six divisions offered. The division I worked for had a warped interpretation of the law Congress established regarding subsidies. If the employee's income changed because of spousal death, separation, divorce, the process was a nightmare because someone decided that the previous year's income determined eligibility. This was not the intention of Congress. DoD uses the military member's current income to determine eligibility. Each state that receives federal funds for child care subsidies for low income families uses the current income. So why did this agency decided differently? They had a expert in child care and opted to discharge her.