Federal employees
furloughed during the shutdown in 2013 did receive back pay for the 16 days the government remained closed.
Marrett noted that 385 staff members at the NSF - funded National Radio Astronomy Observatory were
furloughed during the shutdown, along with 82 people working in the North American office of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array operating in Chile.
Hyundai's latest addition to its Assurance program, which helped put the automaker on the map during the early years of the great recession by offering similar deferment options, extends all auto loan and lease payments for Hyundai owners affected by
the furloughs during the shutdown.
Not exact matches
During an interview with WCBS 880 AM Radio, Paterson stressed that he has not yet included his plan to
furlough public employees one day a week in emergency budget extenders, which would essentially force legislators to choose between infuriating state worker unions and a government
shutdown.
Seeing a loophole to be exploited between the loose language of the law and the clear intent, when it came time to shut down the government,
furlough workers, and stop checks from being issued, they got a convenient legal ruling that said, yes, suspending their own pay is considered altering the pay of Congress (because the law didn't just say pay raises)
during the same session, therefore, it is illegal for them not to collect their paychecks
during a
shutdown.
During the U.S. government
shutdown, «essential personnel» are required to work, but everyone else has been
furloughed.
In the context of
shutdown furloughs, the term «excepted» is used to refer to employees who are funded through annual appropriations who are nonetheless excepted from the
furlough because they are performing work that, by law, may continue to be performed
during a lapse in appropriations.
For a glipse of this, take a look at OPM's
furlough guidance
during the
shutdown.
-» [M] ost Federal government support for new basic research» stopped
during the
shutdown «due to
furloughs of 98 percent of NSF employees, nearly three quarters of the NIH [National Institutes of Health], and two thirds of the CDC.»
Certainly
during the
shutdown of the federal government, when we had to
furlough [about] 8,500 staff and couldn't protect Americans as effectively because of that — that was a terrible time.