Sentences with phrase «furloughed federal workers»

A few days later, Diaz - Balart voted to give back pay to furloughed federal workers.

The Senate's failure to pass a new stopgap spending measure late Friday triggered a partial government shutdown — the first since October 2013, beginning the shuttering of «non-essential» agencies throughout the government, furloughing federal workers and closing federal facilities.

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Borrowers with loans from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Housing Administration or the Rural Housing Service will feel the most direct impact because furloughed workers are involved in processing those loans.

While some are blaming that drop on the government shutdown, when federal workers were furloughed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics itself is not.

The dispute has raised the prospect that federal agencies will run out of money Tuesday, causing 800,000 federal workers to be furloughed and more than a million others to work without pay.

Gov. David Paterson is looking at layoffs now that his plan to furlough state workers have been rejected by a federal judge.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers received furlough notices after Congress failed to agree on a continuing resolution (CR) late Monday night to fund the government.

Unless lawmakers quickly agree to a deal, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be furloughed.

Days after a federal judge blocked his efforts to furlough half the state work force, Gov. David A. Paterson is drafting a plan that would lay off thousands of government workers at the beginning of next year, a move officials say is necessary to help balance the state budget.

ALBANY — Plans to furlough thousands of state workers next week have been halted by a federal judge, frustrating Gov. David Paterson's efforts to close a $ 9.2 billion deficit.

ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge has issued an order blocking Gov. David Paterson from imposing furloughs on about 100,000 state workers.

With US Centers for Disease Control workers on enforced furlough, several outbreaks in North America are not being tracked or investigated by federal officials

That became crystal clear this past weekend, when the Federal Aviation Administration was forced to furlough roughly 4,000 workers...» — Nashua Telegraph, July 28, 2011 `