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The entitlement of furloughed federal employees to receive retroactive pay after a shutdown, as per the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019.
Furloughed federal employees are legally entitled to receive for the period of a lapse in appropriations once the shutdown ends, under the and long-standing guidance . In practice, that entitlement ha...
No — a is not the same as a paid vacation: it is a temporary, unpaid suspension of duty in many cases, with distinct rules about pay, leave, benefits and outside work that differentiate it sharply fro...
Yes — who are furloughed (prohibited from working during a lapse in appropriations) do not receive paychecks while the shutdown is underway, but by law and long-standing practice most are paid retroac...