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ManiacJoe

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16. Certainly will not bet my life on it.

Reply to quakerboy (Reply #8)

Sat Feb 28, 2015, 10:14 PM

Feb 2015

One would need to see the employment contracts to know for sure.

In general, the laws say that if you work the time you need to be paid for it, eventually. Of course, Congress has a long history of exempting the government from its own laws.

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