"A draft memo from the Office of Management and Budget seen by Business Insider says that employees who have been "furloughed" - temporarily suspended from their jobs during the government shutdown - are not automatically entitled to back pay. That's despite a 2019 law, the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, that is widely understood to guarantee back pay to all federal workers following government shutdowns."
""After the lapse in appropriations has ended, employees who were furloughed as the result of the lapse will receive retroactive pay for those furlough periods," reads the OPM guidance. "Retroactive pay will be provided on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.""
"At issue is a phrase in the law stating that federal workers will be paid "subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse." The White House memo argues that language requires Congress to specifically pass a bill to provide that pay, and that it's not granted automatically. It also says that employees who have been required to work during the shutdown will be paid."
The White House argues that furloughed federal employees are not automatically entitled to back pay during the government shutdown, citing statutory language that payment is "subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse." The Office of Personnel Management guidance says furloughed employees will receive retroactive pay as soon as possible after the lapse ends. The White House position interprets the law to require Congress to pass specific appropriations to authorize pay and says employees required to work during the shutdown will be paid. The position would affect hundreds of thousands of federal workers, including a significant share of White House staff.
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