Back to the serious business of a shutdown. Federal workers placed on furlough will not get paid during the shutdown. After past shutdowns, Congress has voted to pay furloughed workers retroactively, but this time employee advocates aren’t so sure, given public (and some legislators’) attitudes toward the federal government.
“It’s a very different time and a very different Congress,” Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, told The Washington Post.
Essential workers who stay on the job during the shutdown will still get paid, but if the shutdown drags on long enough, their pay could be delayed.
