Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
USCIS Service Centers	USCIS business days?	QUOTE (Jigi @ Dec 23 2007, 06:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hi, Business days are from Monday to Friday only . Jigi Plus..many employees have what is called "use or lose" vacation time. They store up their vacation time (that would lost in the new leave year) and save it for the week between Xmas & New Year. It is usually in most agencies a liberal leave week and as long as someone is there "to hold down the fort" they let most people, that want to, take off. The bottom line...you can presume not much done around/during the holidays. Things should pick up second week in January... Disclaimer: Of course I have not worked for the USCIS, but it's been the same for the several other agencies I have worked for. Bette	bettenan	Not Telling	England	2007-12-26 12:48:00
USCIS Service Centers	Service Center Wage Cuts	QUOTE (desert_fox @ Dec 13 2007, 02:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Delicia @ Dec 13 2007, 01:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What also the article doesn't mention is that these employees will get a COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) on Jan 1. I don't have any sympathy for them. If they wanted to make more money, they would work in private industry. Most government employees chose to work for the government for other benefits that are not provided by private industry: more holidays and other paid time off, job security, cost of living adjustments every year on top of your annual performance based raise. ?? This is private industry. They just happen to work for a contractor that has a govt contract to staff the mail rooms at the USCIS Centers and do the initial data entry. They are not govt employees and do not get a COLA raise in January. Correct and by my calculation a clerk (GS-3) starting out with the gov't (before the '08 COLA) would be getting only $11.08 an hour....	bettenan	Not Telling	England	2007-12-27 09:22:00