As the U.S. government faces a shutdown, the Trump administration is concurrently executing layoffs under a plan called 'reduction in force' (RIF). Federal agencies must submit their plans for large-scale workforce reductions, potentially affecting up to 700,000 employees. This situation mimics a government shutdown, with agencies determining non-essential employees to identify those targeted for layoffs. Unlike furloughs, RIF does not guarantee back pay, making the impact on federal services and employees substantially more severe than previous shutdowns.
Thursday is the deadline for federal agencies and departments to give the Trump administration their plans for large-scale layoffs, and the details about how many people will be fired are expected to come out throughout and coming weeks ...
It remains unclear how many of the roughly 2 million federal employees spread across the country could lose their jobs under the new layoff plans, called a 'reduction in force' or RIF.
An early estimate when Trump initiated the RIF process last month was that up to 700,000 federal employees could lose their jobs.
So in a way, the RIF operates like a government shutdown in terms of the services lost, though worse in one way: In the past, furloughed employees received back pay once a shutdown ended.
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