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• Familiar Process ahead for Employees if Shutdown Happens - September 18, 2024

• FEDweek

  Agency-by-agency and government-wide policies have remained largely unchanged for many years and the results will be familiar for employees if a funding lapse occurs and triggers a partial shutdown as of the October 1 start of the new fiscal year.

  Each agency has a shutdown “contingency plan” that describes the categories of employees who would be required to stay at work, although unpaid until funding is restored (“excepted” employees) and those who would be sent home on unpaid furloughs (“non-excepted” employees). Most of those plans were updated late last year.

  The distinctions are largely based on OMB policy in effect for decades involving agency obligations to provide safety and security regardless of the availability of funds.

  To read the full article, click here.

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