"Air traffic controllers can finally get paid for all the work they performed during the 43 days of the shutdown. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that will happen promptly, with controllers receiving the bulk of their back pay within days. But some air traffic controllers have not forgotten the last government shutdown in 2018 and 2019, when dozens of controllers sued the federal government for overtime and other compensation they said they were owed."
""I just got a $400 check, just, like, maybe a week before the shutdown, that was from that 2019 shutdown," said a controller who handles high-altitude traffic at a facility in the Midwest. He asked NPR to withhold his name because he's afraid of retaliation from the Federal Aviation Administration. This controller says the FAA did a poor job of tracking overtime and shift differentials during the prior shutdown, and he's dreading the task of calculating how much he is owed this time."
The federal government reopened, enabling air traffic controllers to receive back pay for 43 days of the shutdown. Transportation officials indicated controllers would receive bulk back pay within days and potentially within 48 hours, with a lump-sum payment to avoid further delay. Dozens of controllers previously sued over overtime and other compensation related to the 2018-2019 shutdown; that settlement took years to deliver for some. One controller received only a $400 check from the prior settlement weeks before the latest shutdown. Controllers report poor FAA tracking of overtime and shift differentials and face a complex, time-consuming process to calculate owed amounts.
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