“Official time” is an oxymoron that conveniently misleads federal taxpayers.
When federal employees are on “official time,” they’re not doing the jobs they were hired for. Instead, they’re released from their official duties and working for their union—all while getting their taxpayer-funded federal employee salaries and benefits.
Some lawmakers believe this needs to stop.
That’s why Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., propose a bill called the No Union Time on the Taxpayer’s Dime Act, which would end the practice of official time.
Instead, under the Lee-Bishop bill introduced Tuesday, federal employees who want to work for their union would have to do so on their own time and would have to be paid by their union instead of taxpayers.
The problem with so-called official time goes beyond taxpayer money being wasted on federal…
