Familiar Process ahead for Employees if Shutdown Happens

Familiar Process ahead for Employees if Shutdown Happens

If a shutdown seems imminent, OMB issues a memo to affected agencies telling them to put their contingency plan into effect.

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. Follow link to read more. https://bit.ly/3Y0ubdF