However, the analysts who analyze the data are on furlough.
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These employees have been on furlough since December, with benefits.
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More than 30,000 state workers were on furlough on Monday.
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Other businesses have had to lay off and furlough employees.
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Like a government furlough, God has deferred her nonessential agencies.
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Instead, we hoped for a short furlough and no medical emergencies.
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The IRS has been subject to a furlough since Dec. 21040.
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Federal furlough rules forbid some NASA employees from attending the festivities.
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"Maybe it was the furlough that scared them off," he said.
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It's also not guaranteed that the furlough will end by December.
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Really, she's planning to release them so she'll be granted furlough.
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The company will also furlough an unspecified number of operations staff.
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This time, the plan is to furlough 22013% of the staff.
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But with that accomplished, this show should give Shakespeare a furlough.
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On stage at a comedy show, I talk about the furlough.
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Most employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are on furlough.
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The government did not object to the motion for Schroeder&aposs furlough.
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Workers at impacted government agencies are on furlough, going without a paycheck.
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Kennedy, a football fan, called Fort Riley and Hornung's furlough was changed.
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The majority of employees at the inspector general's office are under furlough.
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We're offering free tickets to all US government employees currently on furlough.
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Close to 51,000 TSA agents are working without pay or on furlough.
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Those who aren't left on furlough, but rather working, can't collect unemployment.
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"The terms of the furlough are specific to each employer," Skrabanek explained.
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My employer could put me on furlough at any time without warning.
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JCPenney announced Tuesday that it would furlough many of its 85,000 employees.
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In general, a lot of important scientific work stops during a furlough.
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Over 21,000 National Park Service employees are on furlough, the documents said.
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A JBS press representative said the 20-day furlough would begin on Monday.
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Furlough from #MeToo jail is apparently a pretty cushy endeavor for Charlie Rose.
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He said some workers still remain on furlough, but wouldn't say how many.
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It has been in furlough status since the shutdown began on Dec. 22.
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Halliburton said it would furlough 3,500 employees in Houston, per the Houston Chronicle.
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"Non-essential" federal workers at unfunded agencies are on furlough and staying home.
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On Day 24, weeks into her mandatory furlough, she applied for unemployment benefits.
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A mandated furlough notice could soon be issued to those workers, he added.
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Some government agencies will run out of money and have to furlough workers.
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Most employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are on furlough.
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My co-workers and I hardly spoke about the actual reasons for the furlough.
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The impasse could mean a furlough for 30,000 to 35,000 state employees on Monday.
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About 850,000 employees were put on furlough in 2013, according to The Washington Post.
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There's no "soft on crime" furlough program in this round of Willie Horton tactics.
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The company would not say exactly how many employees will be put on furlough.
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Some 800,000 federal employees have been put on furlough or are working without pay.
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In a chain reaction, Ms. Quillen's plant, too, scheduled a weeklong furlough in July.
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Major restaurateurs and hotels have started to lay off or furlough thousands of employees.
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Which begs the question, what exactly is a furlough, and how does it work?
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The wisdom of the Massachusetts furlough program was open to debate aside from race.
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It's the latest protest against the authorities' rejection of a convicted terrorist's furlough request.
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An employee furlough is when an employer requires employees to take unpaid time off.
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JCPenney will also furlough a "significant portion" of its corporate workforce starting April 5.
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Macy's said the majority of its employees will go on furlough starting this week.
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We may be able to qualify for financial help while I'm out on furlough.
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Some 800,193 federal workers have been staying home on furlough or working without pay.
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The 800,000 federal workers on furlough for the past 35 days will also receive backpay.
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The company says it is extending the furlough, but did not say for how long.
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But it would have to furlough workers if Congress went weeks before approving new funding.
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Luckily, she says, her mom's agency had enough funding to push her furlough date back.
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The union representing the Volkswagen workers confirmed the furlough, but did not provide more details.
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But on late Friday afternoon, Rosselló said he will not "accept or execute" the furlough.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was forced to furlough controllers, causing delays throughout the system.
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FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT: The CFTC said it would have to furlough 95 percent of employees immediately.
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Layoffs continued apace, with Macy's announcing it would furlough a "majority" of its 125,000 workers.
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Gap, meanwhile, said it would furlough most store workers in the United States and Canada.
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Instead of layoffs, many companies have opted to furlough employees, or enforced unpaid time off.
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U.S. airline executives pledged over the weekend that they would not furlough workers through Aug.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission would have to furlough 95 percent of its employees immediately.
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The agency had to recall thousands of its aviation inspectors from furlough over safety concerns.
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About half of the Department of Health and Human Services will be placed on furlough.
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Now, because of the government shutdown, 41 percent of the agency's workers are on furlough.
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For now, Boeing said it doesn't expect to have to lay off or furlough employees.
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In the morning, the work furlough people would get ready to go to their jobs.
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VETERANS: Most employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs would not be subject to furlough.
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Remember George H. W. Bush's 1988 ad about Willie Horton, who committed crimes while on furlough?
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As long as the stalemate continues, 800,000 federal employees are on furlough or working without pay.
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A convicted murderer, Horton escaped from a weekend prison furlough and later raped a white woman.
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Those hired before can opt for the furlough or continue working regularly but at lower pay.
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Colleges in Illinois, for example, recently issued furlough notices to cope with the state's budget crisis.
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The board announced the plan to furlough government workers for two days each month on Friday.
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About 51,000 TSA agents are among the 800,000 government employees working without pay or on furlough.
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The stalemate has put 380,000 federal employees on furlough, while another 420,000 are working without pay.
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During the 2013 shutdown, 850,000 federal workers across the country were furlough for over two weeks.
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An employee furlough is when staff members are required to take an unpaid leave of absence.
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Donate to bookstore workers Many bookshop staffers have been laid off or placed on temporary furlough.
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Caesars Entertainment also said it has had to furlough workers since its properties were ordered shut.
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Additionally, it will furlough 50% of its U.S. maintenance, repair and overhaul employees for 90 days.
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Government employees who are considered "excepted" are exempt from the furlough and will continue to work.
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It's close to payday, so close to when we'll really be noticing what the furlough costs.
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According to the artist, it might not survive the wait while F.C.C. workers are on furlough.
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Potential flu problems The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had to furlough 68% of its staff during the 2013 government shutdown, and their plan going into the current shutdown was to furlough 61% in the midst of an influenza breakout across the United States.
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The official asked not to be named because employees are prohibited from doing government work on furlough.
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The electric vehicle startup Faraday Future has put at least 250 employees on furlough, The Verge reports.
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Jia said the furlough will last at least through December, and is dependent on finding new funding.
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The ferry service will have to furlough workers if the shutdown continues for a week or more.
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The CFTC would face the most direct impact, having to furlough 95 percent of its employees immediately.
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Hinckley's behavior during his furlough visits has been unimpeachable aside from a few occasions, the judge wrote.
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This has left the railroads scrambling to trim costs by mothballing locomotives and putting workers on furlough.
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Rationing in interior Sao Paulo forced the world's largest beef producer, JBS SA, to furlough 215 workers.
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The article also has been updated to clarify details about the family's daycare situation during their furlough.
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In addition, more than 380,000 federal employees would be placed on furlough, according to the fact sheet.
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Most of these employees, if not all, are currently on furlough due to the lapse in appropriations.
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Some of those restaurants have been forced to furlough staff members or temporarily close to stay afloat.
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The Military Times has also had to furlough dozens of staff members for the next two weeks.
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Separately, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Iran has released American Mike White on medical furlough.
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They don't know if their companies or employers are going to put them on furlough without pay.
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Macy's, which said it would furlough most employees, drew down a $1.5 billion credit line in March.
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The cast convenes in December and rehearses for three weeks before a furlough for the Christmas holidays.
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Hotel chain Marriott International said this week it was preparing to furlough tens of thousands of workers.
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And thousands of federal employees will be placed on furlough -- meaning they won't report to work Monday.
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In 1988, during the Massachusetts primary, Al Gore brought up the state's weekend furlough program for prisoners.
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If Congress doesn't reach a deal, come Monday, thousands of federal employees will be placed on furlough.
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Furloughs Thousands of federal employees will be placed on furlough -- meaning they won't report to work Monday.
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Rather than laying people off, the CEO opted to furlough workers at reduced pay for three months.
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Halliburton last week said it would furlough 3,500 workers for two months due to the price crash.
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The plan, which originally envisioned a four-day per month furlough, is set to begin on Sept.
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GM said it will furlough the employees when it cuts the third shift at both plants in January.
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The infamous 1988 Horton television ad attacked Dukakis' furlough policy, but drew widespread scrutiny for its racial undertones.
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Under Joe Caputo's (Nick Sandow) recommendation, she calls up MCC to request furlough to go to Benny's hospital.
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The group threw pamphlets demanding that Greek authorities grant a furlough to allow Koufodinas to leave jail temporarily.
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About 6,400 employees are on indefinite furlough, the Post reports, and 2,100 are essential employees working without pay.
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Among those expected to be placed on furlough would be roughly 52,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service.
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About 380,000 federal employees are on furlough and 420,000 are working without pay as the new year approaches.
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He added that she may be granted a furlough on Wednesday or Thursday to join family in Tehran.
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A continued shutdown would furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers, affecting a wide range of government programs.
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"We can't lay off or furlough our employees because, frankly, we could need all of them," Shields said.
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Rival Halliburton plans to furlough about 3,500 workers in response to the producer spending cuts and coronavirus outbreak.
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Nordstrom said it would furlough "a portion of corporate employees" starting April 5 and lasting for six weeks.
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It is also beginning to furlough a portion of its corporate workforce, starting April 5 for six weeks.
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While it's possible she was able to get a Bachelor furlough for that event, it seems pretty unlikely.
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Calhoun confirmed that Boeing will not lay off or furlough any of its own staff during the shutdown.
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During a furlough, the great majority of them would go home, not collect a paycheck or back pay.
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During government shutdowns, employees in all three branches of government are vulnerable to furlough, or temporary unpaid leave.
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Fort Campbell officials said a shutdown would likely involve the furlough of some civilian government service employees. Yes.
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Conway, like other "non-essential" workers, has been told to stay home on furlough, or temporary unpaid leave.
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Some government agencies will run out of money and have to furlough workers if Congress lets funding lapse.
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Rival Halliburton plans to furlough about 3,500 workers in response to the producer spending cuts and coronavirus outbreak.
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If there was a prolonged lapse in funding a "limited number" of workers may be placed on furlough.
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About 420,000 employees, deemed essential, are working without pay, while 380,000 have been placed on unpaid leave, or furlough.
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I have to sit down with our financial person and we might have to furlough a couple of people.
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About 51,000 TSA agents are among the 800,000 government employees working without pay or on furlough during the shutdown.
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If they qualify as essential personnel, they are required to work during a government shutdown or face indefinite furlough.
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Iran announced it would release 70,000 prisoners on furlough who had tested negative, but Namazi was not among them.
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To put it simply, an employee furlough is when employers require their staff to take unpaid leaves of absence.
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Feds, here are sample letters you may use as a guide when working with your creditors during this furlough.
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During a shutdown, nearly 40% of the government workforce is placed on unpaid furlough and told not to work.
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Two days later, it decided to take 85033,000 IRS employees off furlough so that they could process tax refunds.
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Nordstrom said last week that it would furlough "a portion of corporate employees" on April 22020 for six weeks.
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Nordstrom said last week that it would furlough "a portion of corporate employees" on April 22020 for six weeks.
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"They said things were slower than usual because the person who would investigate was on furlough," the pilot said.
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I took care of all the tasks because most of the other inmates left every day for work furlough.
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The company said last week it was closing plants in Mississippi, Georgia and Pennsylvania, and putting 100 workers on furlough.
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The holiday shutdown was projected by Senate Democrats to furlough 380,000 federal employees and keep 420,000 more working without pay.
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The workers received benefits during this furlough, which started in late 2500, and it had already been extended once already.
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Faraday Future then placed hundreds of workers on unpaid leave, and expanded that furlough in December to include hundreds more.
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Last month BRF said it would send around 3,000 people on furlough at its Capinzal plant state effective May 7.
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Some of the more than 2.2 million government workers would be exempt from furlough, including those who provide essential services.
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Currently, 800,000 government employees are working without pay or on furlough during the government shut down according to the Post.
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That means about 380,000 employees will be placed on furlough and another 420,13 will be expected to work without pay.
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Mercedes said its furlough will last from March 25 through April 19 and had already been negotiated with its unions.
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Marriott International, the world's biggest hotel chain, announced last week it will start to furlough workers because of the crisis.
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"One or the both of us has been affected by every furlough since the 1995-1996 furloughs," Mr. Milazzo said.
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The civilian employees on furlough feel like they are letting the people in uniform, who are still at work, down.
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Committee staff said Monday they were struggling to get clarity from administration officials, many of whom are out on furlough.
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By accepting the grants or the loans, airlines will agree not to furlough or lay off staff through September, 2020.
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Mercedes said its furlough will last from March 25 through April 19 and had already been negotiated with its unions.
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Because of this, the company has chosen to furlough the majority of its store teams across the US and Canada.
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The furlough will affect more than 28503,22020 workers at the defense contractor, which makes training aircraft for the Air Force.
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This is different from employees excepted for furlough because their work is considered essential, such as members of the military.
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The shutdown has left 800,000 federal workers either on furlough or working without pay because their jobs are deemed essential.
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When the federal government shuts down, it isn't just us feds who were directly impacted by the furlough and bipartisan disagreements.
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A Freeport workers' union started a month-long strike on May 1 aimed at ending the company's layoffs and furlough policy.
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In some cases, federal credit unions are offering furlough relief loans to help affected workers remain afloat in the short-term.
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He was not above nasty attack ads in the 1988 campaign, excoriating Michael Dukakis for giving furlough to a black rapist.
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Only about 250 employees remained at the company's Los Angeles headquarters during the furlough, down from around 1,000 earlier this year.
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It demanded an end to the furlough policy and notified Freeport of plans to strike for 30 days from May 1.
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During this protracted government shutdown, the media would have you believe that federal workers are eating cat food while on furlough.
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Other federal employees would be placed on furlough, meaning they would effectively be put on a leave of absence without pay.
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The nine Cabinet agencies affected by the furlough, viewed together, are a combined 37% minority, however, lower than that national average.
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But if the shutdown continues through next week, the number of workers on furlough could show up in the January survey.
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The opposite is true now, as the Trump administration reclassifies employees from furloughed to essential or excepted from furlough at will.
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Marriott expects to furlough tens of thousands of employees in the coming weeks, Craig Karmin reported for the Wall Street Journal.
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That is the deadline to approve a new spending plan — without which certain federal employees would be placed on unpaid furlough.
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Late Tuesday, Halliburton, which provides drilling and related services to oil producers, said it would furlough 3,500 workers for 60 days.
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Everyone I know in New York City is on furlough, and I know people whose salary has been cut in half.
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SoftBank-backed lending startup Kabbage will furlough a "significant" number of staff and close an office in Bangalore, according to TechCrunch.
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It published photographs of Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe's three-day furlough last weekend with her daughter, including the moment they bid farewell.
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But it was a mostly young, Hebrew-speaking Israeli crowd, including soldiers home for a weekend furlough, filling the dance floor.
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His father was released on medical furlough, but still faces many restrictions and is forbidden from leaving the country, Namazi says.
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GE said it will also furlough about half of its aviation unit's maintenance, repair and engine overhaul workers for 90 days.
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Last year, she was granted a three-day furlough to see her young daughter and other relatives, then returned to prison.
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"I do not accept nor will I execute the furlough submitted today by the Financial Oversight and Management Board," Rossello said.
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He joined United as a pilot in 2000, and was recalled from a furlough six months before being deployed, the complaint said.
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The next best alternative could be a zero-interest furlough loan or line of credit from a federal credit union, Beatty said.
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A company spokesperson, confirming three former employee accounts, said that under prior management, StoneMor put in place hiring freezes and a furlough.
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By the end of October, Faraday Future decided to furlough hundreds more employees, and kept about 600 onboard at drastically reduced pay.
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The TSA is fully exempt, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had to furlough a large fraction of its staff.
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However, the test keeps getting pushed, making a February launch more likely — and now the furlough could push the flight even further.
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"Feds, here are sample letters you may use as a guide when working with your creditors during this furlough," the agency tweeted.
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Ricardo Rosselló (D) on Friday said he would not implement a government worker furlough mandated by the federally appointed Fiscal Oversight Board.
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But federal employees -- those on furlough and those who have remained on the job -- still won't be paid until the shutdown ends.
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That year, the Pentagon also did not furlough more than 1.3 million active military personnel, nor half of its civilian work force.
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The airline said earlier on Monday that it would furlough 5,000 cabin crew from next month for as long as a year.
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His biggest worry is that his company will put him on furlough, which he thinks would be worse than being laid off.
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If you get put on furlough, and you're like, 'No, I don't want to do it' and resign, you can't do unemployment.
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The IRS, for example, is expected to furlough 87% of its workers, which means most of the agency's programs will be shuttered.
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Earlier this month, CPS CEO Forrest Claypool announced unpaid furlough days for teachers and administrators to help offset the lost state money.
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She usually works four days a week, but is adding extra hours during the furlough and thinking about adding an extra day.
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Why it matters: The State Department has been under financial strain during the shutdown, with employees on unpaid furlough and some resources halted.
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On the floor of the House, Representative Newt Gingrich read news articles that criticized the Massachusetts furlough program, and by extension, Mr. Dukakis.
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The couple had planned to return to the United States for a two-month furlough in mid-August, according to the mission's website.
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A 35-day shutdown between December and January led to a furlough of 800,000 federal workers and cost the economy about $3 billion.
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Some are allowed to leave during the day for work furlough, but they still have to go back to Tent City to sleep.
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Elio Motors had to furlough a "significant portion" of its workforce to stay afloat as it searched for around $100 million in funding.
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The furlough will affect workers from Volkswagen's Taubaté factory, which is located in the state of Sao Paulo and employs some 3,500 workers.
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On March 28503, after almost a month of furlough, I got the call from the company that had been awarded the new contract.
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In other words, federal workers on furlough or working without pay because of the shutdown should just strike a deal with the store.
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Santander Brasil did not disclose the number of workers on furlough or the number of branches to be closed, starting on March 24.
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Marriott, the world's largest hotel company, is starting to furlough tens of thousands of workers across the country, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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In-person enrollment groups are preparing to lay off staffs; one has already begun to furlough workers after learning of the budget cuts.
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Marriott International, the hotel operator, said it would furlough tens of thousands of employees worldwide, and small businesses are laying off workers outright.
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That ad attacked Mr. Dukakis on a prison furlough program that granted Mr. Horton a weekend pass on which he committed a murder.
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Such inmates surely will file lawsuits demanding their immediate transfer to safe spaces or, if that is not possible, their furlough or release.
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He also said that his wife had asked the judge for clemency and for a furlough to celebrate her daughter's birthday in June.
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Boeing reiterated to CNBC this week that the manufacturer doesn't plan to lay off or furlough employees who work on the 737 Max.
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But in the Senate, a handful of Republicans and most Democrats opposed the bill, forcing the furlough of more than 800,000 federal workers.
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"We assume (Spirit) will elect to stop production and furlough employees at a cost of $0.40 per month of the stoppage," Copeland said.
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Gap, which also owns Old Navy and Banana Republic, said it would furlough nearly 683,268 store employees in the United States and Canada.
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Gap, which also owns Old Navy and Banana Republic, said it would furlough nearly 683,268 store employees in the United States and Canada.
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Justice Minister Koen Geens told RTBF radio he was having pangs of conscience over whether the man should have been allowed the furlough.
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The ad succeeded in painting Mr. Dukakis as soft on crime — never mind that at that time, furlough programs were common across the country.
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Prior to the furlough, it never occurred to me to think about what would happen to her if we weren't able to pay her.
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Fargo Police Chief Dave Todd told KFGO radio that Sean Schroeder, 29, should not have been released from jail for the two-week furlough.
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So in the end, some people ended up with a three-day weekend, and avoided the pain of a prolonged furlough with no pay.
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Domestic inspections, of which the organization does about 160 per week, have slowed with about 41 percent of the organization's 17,000 employees on furlough.
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Rivian has hired about 22020 former Faraday Future employees, including at least 34 since the struggling startup put workers on furlough late last year.
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Of the more than 114,000 employees on board as of early September, 83%, or about 95,000, would be excepted from furlough during a shutdown.
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Even with those reductions, Friday's paycheck is the last one the company can afford, even at reduced furlough salaries, as The Verge previously reported.
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The startup originally placed hundreds of employees on furlough, or unpaid leave, in October, reducing its US headcount from around 2500,218 to about 210.
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Today: a lawyer who is on furlough due to the partial government shutdown and spends some of her money this week on Diet Coke.
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The union, which began a 30-day strike May 1 to try and get workers' jobs back, is demanding Freeport end its furlough policy.
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Calls to the FDA seeking comment were met with messages saying the various spokespeople were on furlough status and unable to take the call.
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As the shutdown drags on and federal workers spend more time on furlough or working without pay, fears about its economic impacts have mounted.
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And the amount of resources it takes to prepare for a furlough and execute on it and then have backup after, it is inordinate.
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If signed into law, the bill would allow payments once a funding deal is reached, even for employees on furlough since the shutdown began.
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GM's Chevrolet is Brazil's best-selling car brand and the company's decision could potentially lead other large Brazilian automakers to furlough and halt production.
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During Mr. Kelleher's tenure, the company never had a layoff, furlough or pay cut, despite being among the most unionized airlines in the world.
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In particular, the governor has refused to furlough government workers, and to reduce the pensions of retired government employees by an average 10 percent.
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GM's Chevrolet is Brazil's best-selling car brand and the company's decision could potentially lead other large Brazilian automakers to furlough and halt production.
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On April 8, 1864, she gave birth to a daughter, and that same month, Mr. Ramey returned to Edgefield for a three-month furlough.
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Hyatt Hotels announced Wednesday that it would furlough two-thirds of its corporate employees in the U.S. and temporarily cut pay for workers worldwide.
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He runs a prison theater group, which is in rehearsals for Hedda Gabler when he takes a weekend furlough to attend Princess Carolyn's wedding.
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"The objective 1/8of the furlough 3/8 is to implement the internal segregation of the commercial aviation business," Embraer said in a statement.
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A government furlough means hundreds of patients will not be allowed to enroll in vital clinical trials conducted through the National Institutes of Health.
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Michael Dukakis as being far too liberal on crime, a big topic in the 1980s (though the furlough program was started by Dukakis' predecessor).
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GM said it will furlough the employees when it cuts the third shift at its Lordstown, Ohio and Lansing, Michigan plants in mid-January.
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Hundreds of thousands of federal employees remained on furlough Monday afternoon, even as prospects improved significantly that they would return to work on Tuesday.
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The Justice Department confirmed that employees with the special counsel's office are exempt from furlough because their paychecks do not rely on annual appropriations.
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The extensive spending cuts come in tandem with Nissan's decision this month to order a two-day furlough for U.S. employees Jan. 2-3.
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When we looked him up, we learned he was a child molester and child pornographer, and they were letting him out on work furlough.
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U.S. Attorney Chris Myers, whose office did not object to the furlough, said earlier that Schroeder "will wish" he had not left the halfway house.
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The shutdown affects some 800,000 federal workers nationwide, who are either being forced to stay home on furlough or forced to keep working without pay.
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The judge drew criticism from the victim&aposs family and friends last month when he granted Lingor a furlough so the boy could attend graduation.
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Among the big layoffs announced during the month: GM's plan to close plants and furlough 14,000 employees, 460 by Cisco Systems and 350 by Starbucks.
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Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Even when raucous, keep the caucus MORE — on a controversial prisoner furlough program in his state of Massachusetts.
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And so let me give you one: Two days ago, I met this extraordinary couple who are on furlough because they are missionaries in Bangladesh.
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The startup still had to place hundreds more people on furlough in early December, and it doesn't expect that to change until at least February.
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The Merit Systems Protection Board was created in 22019 as an independent authority to manage federal employee appeals of furlough, suspension, retirement, and removal decisions.
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The agency said it will be recalling a "significant portion" of its federal employees, who are on furlough, back to work as tax season approaches.
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This is now the longest furlough of government workers in US history, so it's also the biggest window of increased exposure to hacking to date.
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Schumer is proposing unemployment benefits to allow employers to furlough workers and then bring them back to their jobs once the health crisis has passed.
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It is hard to stiff vendors, lay people off, furlough or reduce pay or take advantage of eviction-stays to simply not pay the rent.
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A half-day shutdown in 1986 led to the furlough of 20133,000 workers, costing taxpayers more than $62 million in lost work, The Times reported.
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But with hundreds of civilians on furlough, a backlog of repair requests are quickly accruing at the Coast Guard's primary maintenance hub in North Carolina.
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Across the street, at a barbershop called Sport Clips, April Guerrero, 47, said business was way down, because so many people were now on furlough.
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Many of them, she said, were so worried about proving they were in need that they brought furlough letters and pay stubs that read zero.
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But she found herself in an unusual limbo: She was not sure if she was a federal worker on furlough or a retired federal worker.
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Textron Aviation on Wednesday announced that it will furlough thousands of workers as the global aviation chain takes a hit from the spread of coronavirus.
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If a construction worker wants to go on furlough during the pandemic, that person can come back to the original project and area of responsibility.
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"The furlough period is uncertain at this time due to the temporary park closures and will be reassessed as business conditions dictate," the filing said.
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Macy's and Kohl's said Monday that they will most furlough employees as the department store chains cope with significant sales losses during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Marriott International, the world's largest hotel company, said it has started to furlough what could amount to tens of thousands of employees on March 17.
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On December 7, 1972, Eubanks, was taken on a furlough with a group of other prisoners to an Ohio mall to do some Christmas shopping.
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Hundreds of thousands of federal employees also remained on furlough Monday afternoon, even as prospects improved significantly that they would return to work on Tuesday.
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A Congressional deal to end the shutdown came too late Monday for hundreds of thousands of workers who had already left their offices on furlough.
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Thousands of federal workers came into their workplaces Monday morning just to prepare for the furlough, locking up their belongings and changing their voicemail messages.
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The company added Monday that it doesn't plan to lay off or furlough workers at the Renton, Washington, factory where the 737 Max is produced.
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Popular wisdom attributed the win to television ads spotlighting a prisoner named Willie Horton, who committed heinous crimes while part of Dukakis' prison furlough program.
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But the Federal Communications Commission — the agency tasked with authorizing new devices using radio frequencies — is on furlough along with the rest of the federal government.
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Southwest Airlines sent an email to its employees and in that message noted that in its entire history it had never had a layoff or furlough.
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FCC employees would be expected back at work the next business day after any deal to fully restore the government is reached and the furlough ends.
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But in the meantime, Faraday Future had to resort to salary cuts, layoffs, and eventually a furlough for hundreds of employees that is still in effect.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would both be forced to furlough thousands of workers responsible for monitoring financial markets.
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Horton was a convicted murderer who went on a crime spree while on furlough from prison under a program supported by Dukakis, then governor of Massachusetts.
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Departments and agencies are briefing federal employees on procedures to close down parts of the government, delay pay, identify essential personnel and furlough some government workers.
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He claimed, without evidence, that federal employees on furlough or working without pay understand his demand for a border wall -- and support him in his mission.
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In Illinois, the absence of a budget means there has been no state financing, straining state universities and prompting some to furlough and lay off employees.
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The discount airline Norwegian said it would furlough half its staff, and most major American airlines capped fares and suspended change fees for many European itineraries.
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Layoffs like the one at Compass are steadily increasing across many different industries, but some companies are choosing to furlough their employees instead, such as Marriot.
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Stocks climbed while oil prices plummeted; Macy's said it would furlough most of its 22025,254 workers; and Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, adopted austerity measures.
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The company, which said it had a strong balance sheet, will also furlough a "significant proportion" of its staff so they secure funding from the government.
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"Unfortunately, Nazanin will be exceptionally required to wear an ankle tag during the furlough, which her parents have now hired from the authorities," Richard Ratcliffe said.
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Labor unions quickly changed the narrative, pushing the industry toward a pledge to not furlough workers in exchange for the grants — at least through the summer.
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Build-A-Bear plans to furlough more than 2188% of its workforce, and The Cheesecake Factory has furloughed 219,22 hourly restaurant workers, according to regulatory filings.
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Phillips said she has been able to keep her health benefits while put on furlough, but she seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
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Set in Seattle, it stars Ms. Tang as a prison inmate on a furlough who falls in love with a Korean gigolo, played by Hyun Bin.
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Boeing will not furlough or lay off workers because of the shutdown, but pain will ripple through its supply chain and could hurt America's economic growth.
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All employees with the special counsel's office would be exempt from furlough, which is the case for employees whose paychecks do not come from annual appropriations.
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Many are on furlough, but the controllers, who are responsible for keeping planes from colliding, had been ordered to keep working because they are considered essential.
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BRUSSELS – Belgium&aposs justice minister says he will stay in his job despite calls for his resignation after a prison inmate killed four people while on furlough.
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She currently stars in the drama series POWER, which is in its fourth season, and she's also coming fresh off the set of Furlough starring Whoopi Goldberg.
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The couple had planned to return to the United States for a two-month furlough beginning in mid-August, according to a post on the mission's website.
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Why it matters: During the government shutdown, essential personnel are exempt from the furlough — so in theory, anyone preventing cybersecurity calamities is still showing up for work.
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A large number of Justice Department employees will be exempt from furlough, according to a contingency plan the department adopted in September for the 2018 fiscal year.
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Workers will be placed on unpaid leave, or a "furlough," until new funding is secured, according to an email from CEO Jia Yueting obtained by The Verge.
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The union has demanded an end to Freeport's furlough policy and began a 30-day strike on May 1 in an effort to get workers' jobs back.
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Follow it with a tiny, decadently rich custard tart, and you get to taste what the Colonel might have whipped up on furlough in the Golden Triangle.
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In the meantime, CPS on Thursday announced three unpaid furlough days for all of its workers to save an estimated $30 million for the $5.7 billion budget.
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Michael Dukakis as a weak-on-crime liberal who allowed a black criminal to rape and assault a white couple while on a weekend furlough from prison.
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The PDF sent to Brooklyn employees also said that the furlough would remain through April 2 and would extend it if "federal state, or local authorities" require.
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"Without an agreed upon Special Measures Agreement, USFK is out of money and must prepare for a potential furlough," he added, the USFK said in a statement.
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Leaked memo reveals that Mattress Firm will be putting some staff on furlough and suspending PTO, severance, and 401(k) match as the coronavirus crisis hits retailers
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What the future holds Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at Poynter, told CNN Business that he is seeing more newsrooms furlough employees rather than lay them off.
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Mr. Horton was an African-American prisoner in Massachusetts who, while released on a furlough program, raped a white Maryland woman and bound and stabbed her boyfriend.
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All told, the Park Service will furlough 262,290 of its 29,245 employees, while the Interior Department will send home more than three-quarters of its 2479,213 workers.
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Likewise, although the Social Security Administration will furlough more than 10,000 employees, more than 52,000 will stay on to continue paying benefits and performing other essential duties.
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The medical furlough of Michael White is a good move, but there are still a few others who should be let out while you fight the virus.
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Employees included in the temporary layoffs will not return to work until May at the earliest, though Tangen suggested the furlough could last longer than one month.
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Fears of a government shutdown coursed through Washington, D.C., on Thursday, as House and Senate leaders negotiated a spending bill and federal agencies prepared to furlough workers.
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Boeing said it does not plan to lay off or furlough workers at the Renton, Washington, factory where the 737 Max is produced during the production pause.
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While he has now been allowed a medical furlough, Iran still refuses to let him travel abroad for necessary medical treatment, and his condition is rapidly deteriorating.
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Boeing initially said it would not lay off or furlough employees at its Renton, Washington, factory, where the Max is assembled, reassigning employees to other teams instead.
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Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the government shutdown, which has put non-essential employees on furlough and closed national parks and the Smithsonian museums.
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"What I've been preaching to them is to get it, because it will make ends meet until the furlough is over," Mr. Reaves said of his members.
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A neighbor, a soldier on furlough, heard the family's cries for help and shot the assailant through a window, according to reports in the Israeli news media.
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"Non-essential" personnel across the government have been staying home on furlough, while "essential" personnel, which includes many in law enforcement, have been working for no pay.
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The last government shutdown occurred in 2013 and lasted for 16 days, costing the US a total of $2.5 billion dollars and the furlough of 20133,000 government employees.
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Now, Ross is downplaying the economic effect the 800,000 federal workers have while on furlough, saying they should borrow from a bank or credit union for money instead.
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Biofuel supplier World Energy announced last week that the company will stop production and furlough employees at facilities in Georgia, Mississippi and Pennsylvania because of the SRE decision.
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" Faraday Future's CEO (and only remaining founder) Jia says in his email that all employees who started working after May 1st of this year "must take a furlough.
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The president first sent parliament on a holiday, reckoning that during their furlough Mr Rajapaksa would be able to win over enough UNP members to gain a majority.
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More than 380,000 federal employees would be placed on furlough, according to the fact sheet, meaning they would effectively be put on a leave of absence without pay.
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If contractors know their employees will eventually be paid, experts say they could furlough more of them with the knowledge that the government will pick up the tab.
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This month, teachers staged a one-day strike, a week after the first of three unpaid school furlough days meant to dent the school system's $1.1 billion deficit.
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There are discrepancies in how employees at corporate-owned venues and franchise venues are being assisted during the furlough, which has left some employees saying they felt betrayed.
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"That way business, small, medium, large can put them on furlough and then when the crisis is over, they're back but there's money in their pockets," he said.
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The zoo plans to furlough 130 of its employees, while an additional 191 involved in the care and feeding of animals are working without pay, according to officials.
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The coronavirus aid bill provides $25 billion in grants to U.S. passenger airlines, granted they do not furlough or cut the pay of their workers through Sept. 30.
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According to the group, it is standard practice for prisoners in Iran to be released for a short period initially, but for their furlough then to be extended.
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Business jet-maker Textron Aviation on Wednesday said it will furlough thousands of U.S. employees, as the rapid spread of coronavirus hurts the aviation industry and other sectors.
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Marriott (MAR), (HLT) – These and other hotel companies are placing tens of thousands of workers on furlough, as travel dries up in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
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For an employee deemed "excepted" from furlough during a shutdown — which is to say, forced to work without pay — walking off the job could carry a similar penalty.
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"We need the wall," Jessica Lemasters, 230, an accountant on furlough from the Treasury Department, said over lunch at the Corner Cafe, a few blocks from the rally.
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Faraday Future had around 250 employees at the LA headquarters working on the FF91 through the furlough at reduced pay as of December, according to current and former employees.
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Faraday confirmed that it has put additional employees on furlough in a statement to Business Insider, but the automaker did not disclose the number of employees that were affected.
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The immediate cause of the strike is a state and city budget crisis that has left the school system seriously indebted and planning steep budget cuts and furlough days.
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"Most" of the hundreds of workers who were on furlough had already "left on their own," Schilling said, but the company made new cuts over the last few days.
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"This dedicated worker was waiting along with her colleagues through days of being furloughed without pay and an uncertain determination about when this furlough might end," the statement read.
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In an emergency, staffers can be called back from furlough, and emergency inspections will be staffed, but they'd be kept only as long as needed to address the emergency.
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The Trump administration has indicated it could furlough or eventually lay off 150 employees at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency tasked with managing the federal workforce.
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Approximately 51,000 TSA officers are among the 800,000 government employees who are either working unpaid or on furlough and are set to miss their first full paychecks this week.
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Marriott (MAR), Hilton Worldwide (HLT) and other hotel companies are placing tens of thousands of workers on furlough, as travel dries up in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
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To make that happen, we should give businesses, of all sizes, who are willing to keep or furlough their employees, access to low-or-zero interest, long-term loans.
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The company will furlough fewer workers at its digital operations and distribution and call centers, Macy's said, but online sales make up just a fifth of Macy's overall revenue.
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Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said her union was "watching closely" to see whether the furlough or potential attrition began to seriously jeopardize safety.
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The firm will also reduce store hours based on performance, furlough an unspecified amount of retail sales associates, operations staff, and corporate staff, and freeze hiring and corporate travel.
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The airline has put forward a plan to its labour union to furlough 5,000 cabin crew from next month for as long as a year, a spokesperson told Reuters.
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On Thursday, Iran granted Michael White, a U.S. citizen held in Iran since 2018, a medical furlough and released him to the custody of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.
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A significant number of its site teams have been placed on a temporary furlough, with all employees on full pay, Whitbread said, adding the recently announced government package reut.
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Textron Aviation last week announced that it will stagger a four-week furlough of about 22020,000 employees – most U.S.-based – beginning on March 23 and lasting until May 29.
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According to the Congressional Research Service, the first of the two shutdowns caused the furlough of about 21625,2900 workers, while the second caused about 220006,2202 workers to be furloughed.
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Boeing says it does not plan to lay off or furlough any of its employees, but it has reassigned some of its 737 Max employees from its Renton, Wash.
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And a leaked memo reveals that Mattress Firm will be putting some staff on furlough and suspending PTO, severance, and 401(k) match as the coronavirus crisis hits retailers.
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In some cases, financial institutions that cater to federal workers and members of the military are offering furlough relief loans to help affected workers stay afloat in the short term.
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Faraday confirmed in a statement to the press that it had put additional employees on furlough, but the automaker did not disclose the number of employees who had been affected.
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According to an internal briefing obtained by the Washington Post, the Trump administration intends to furlough and possibly lay off 150 employees from the Office of Personnel Management on Oct.
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Southwest confirmed on Monday its plans to launch service to Hawaii early this year were on hold because the FAA groups that oversee the route authorization process are on furlough.
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Some tribes' programs have begun sending furlough notices to staff, with possible layoffs looming, if the funding doesn't come through, added Caitrin McCarron Shuy, the board's director of congressional relations.
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Hundreds of thousands of federal employees deemed "nonessential" either wouldn't be allowed to report to work on Monday or would show up briefly to prepare their offices for the furlough.
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That ad hit Bush's opponent, Democrat Michael Dukakis, for the crimes committed when Horton — a black man serving a life sentence for murder — took part in a weekend furlough program.
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As the nine unfunded federal departments furlough some workers and ask others to work without pay, the shutdown is affecting services from airports to FBI investigations and food safety inspections.
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Many people might associate furloughs with government shutdowns, like the 35-day one that started in late 2018 and extended through early 2019, but private companies can furlough employees, too.
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My idea for this puzzle started out as a 15x15 with all clothing-themed homophone swaps — Bow tie Tae Bo, Loafer Furlough, and T-shirt Surety — and the revealer, Refashioned.
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While the decision will allow taxpayers to get their money, the I.R.S. workers being called back from furlough to process those refunds will not be paid until the shutdown ends.
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Airlines accepting aid will not be allowed to lay off or furlough workers until September 30, at which point the crisis could be over or winding down for air carriers.
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While some employees are protected by the minimum duty hours outlined in their employment contracts, other workers Business Insider spoke to are frustrated and equated the cuts to a furlough.
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The company said it did not plan to lay off or furlough workers, but the assembly halt has affected the 600 companies that supply parts or services for the plane.
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If the measure gets passed by Congress and signed, the funding legislation means that federal agencies will no longer be forced to shut their doors and to furlough nonessential workers.
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Managers help decide who is essential or not and during the 2003 shutdown, the CDC had to furlough 2200% of its staff in the United States and around the world.
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No. Most of NASA will be on furlough, like it was during the 2013 shutdown, but a small skeleton crew will stick around to keep US astronauts safe in space.
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If you're in an environment where you're on furlough from work, your paycheck is uncertain, and you have new virus-related costs, are you still going to buy an iPhone?
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Hundreds of thousands of federal employees deemed "nonessential" either wouldn't be allowed to report to work on Monday, or would show up briefly to prepare their offices for the furlough.
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs was set to furlough 2490,295 of 4,057 employees during a shutdown, meaning at least some of those services and salaries will be slowed or stopped.
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When asked in an email about the shutdown's effect on NASA, an agency spokeswoman, Katherine Brown, had an automatic reply that she was in furlough status and unable to respond.
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Some background: In June 1986, while serving time in Massachusetts for the murder of a 17-year-old gas station attendant, Mr. Horton left prison on weekend furlough and never returned.
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Last month, U.S. Forces Korea warned South Korean workers some of them might have to "furlough", or go on unpaid leave, from mid-April if a deal could not be reached.
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President Trump and Democrats are currently locked in a battle over federal funding; the president is adamant that any deal to end the furlough include money for his border wall project.
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The surprise furlough for Monday means that as of Tuesday, when Venezuelans celebrate independence day, 17 of the last 31 calendar days will have been non-work days for many Venezuelans.
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PEOPLE received an automated reply stating the individual was "on furlough until further notice due to the partial government shutdown," now touted as the longest in history on its 22019th day.
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A spokesperson confirmed Convene will pay both its usual portion and furloughed employee's portions of their health insurance plans through August or the end of the furlough, depending which comes first.
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Retailers furlough tens of thousands of workers Macy's (M) and Gap (GPS) are furloughing tens of thousands of employees, part of a desperate bid to conserve cash as sales dry up.
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His sentence ends in 2023, but he was out of jail on a monthlong furlough and on the campaign trail for his son and scion, Dushyant Chautala, and other party candidates.
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And, finally, the governor should direct prison and jail administrators to furlough low-risk inmates and use his own emergency powers to extend those furloughs through the end of the crisis.
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The school district is not creating a remote curriculum during the furlough, but will issue grade-specific schoolwork much like a summer reading list, according to Laura Feijóo, the schools superintendent.
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The main element of friction in the film is Rachel's sister, Kym (Anne Hathaway), an intelligent and breathtakingly needy young woman who arrives on furlough from nine months in drug rehab.
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When we allow one bad actor to color our entire opinion of a sweeping policy, be it furlough programs or sanctuary cities, that's an example of the fear fallacy grinding into motion.
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In between grieving the loss of her, I've had to have a conversation with my roommate about not being able to pay certain bills (utilities/cable) due to being in furlough status.
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On Wednesday, the Chicago Board of Education amended the budget to incorporate $104 million in spending cuts and unpaid furlough days, leaving a $111 million gap in the $5.41 billion spending plan.
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Mr. McConnell, one attendee said, reminded senators of the case of Willie Horton, the Massachusetts felon who committed violent crimes while on furlough and became an issue in the 1988 presidential race.
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Electric car startup Faraday Future plans to furlough hundreds more employees as a result of an ongoing cash crunch during a battle with its main investor, the company announced on Twitter today.
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A government shutdown might mean a temporary inconvenience — an unplanned furlough or a botched trip to Yellowstone — but a failure to raise the debt limit would be a catastrophe for global finance.
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If the 2013 shutdown is any indication, jobs that could be safe from furlough would be those deemed as performing activities critical to national security and the protection of life and property.
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Some contracting companies are big, profitable companies that can shift workers around or continue paying them through a shutdown, while others are small operations that are forced to simply furlough their workers.
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The Executive Office for Immigration Review, the branch of the Justice Department that runs US immigration courts, sent a furlough letter to the nation's more than 300 immigration judges on December 26.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. government shutdowns, which hurt federal workers who go on furlough and taxpayers in need of federal services, have not caused major disruptions to financial markets in the past.
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Last week, administration officials touted the release from Lebanon of a New Hampshire restaurant owner jailed on decades-old allegations and the medical furlough of a Navy veteran from an Iranian prison.
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That means it won't help people who have lost jobs or had hours cut back as restaurants, hotels, airlines and other businesses slow operations and begin to furlough or lay off workers.
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If that happens, the authority would have to furlough its police officers, he said — a not-so-veiled threat to Israel, which depends on Palestinian security forces to police the West Bank.
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Unions at Fiat Chrysler, which is planning a merger with PSA, said management promised to avoid redundancies and get all group employees off special furlough arrangements and back to work by 20.9201.
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The company said it would furlough 2,800 employees, or about 90% of its workforce, in the UK and 3,000 employees in the United States due to the massive decrease in business activities.
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It showed a black man who had raped a white woman and assaulted her husband while free on a Massachusetts prison-furlough program that was supported by Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate.
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Anticipating that it will have to implement the budget cuts, the university system has already issued furlough notifications to its staff, which would require employees to take 10 days off without pay.
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The public, Eric Trump said, would blame Democrats for the paralysis in Washington, and for the forced furlough of hundreds of thousands of federal employees, who would be sent home without pay.
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The combined total of furlough days during the three shutdowns combined was nearly 15 million — or a total of nearly 57,85033 years of lost productivity for agency employees, according to the report.
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During the lapse in funding, however, all employees whose work is not funded by the regular appropriations process are "exempt" from the mandatory furlough that other federal employees have during a shutdown.
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Residents there spent Monday digging out from up to a foot of precipitation from a weekend storm that earned an unofficial name ribbing off the government shutdown: "Snurlough," combining snow and furlough.
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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, with a net worth in the hundreds of millions, said on CNBC that he doesn't "quite understand why" federal workers are going to food banks while on furlough.
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SAO PAULO, July 19 (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG will furlough about 1,000 workers at its largest factory in Brazil, union representatives said on Thursday, due to weaker economic growth and slumping exports to Argentina.
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Carambeí, the last of seven plants where BRF had announced layoffs and sent workers on furlough, will go back online in September, sooner than planned, company executives told journalists on a conference call.
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"The two of us who cover the White House have been going back and forth between unpaid working and furlough status," the news organization's White House bureau chief Steve Herman told CNN Business.
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Approximately 51,000 TSA officers are among the 800,000 government employees who are either working unpaid or on furlough and are set to miss their first full paychecks at the end of this week.
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Megyn Kelly is keeping herself busy during her work furlough ... because she just reported for jury duty in New York, the first time in years she's had time to perform her civic duty.
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The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, granted $58 billion to be split amongst the companies on the condition that the airlines could not lay off or furlough employees through September.
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Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly is taking a 10% pay cut and was quoted in a media report as saying the carrier may ground airplanes and furlough employees, if conditions continue to worsen.
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While Boeing has said it has no immediate plans to lay off or furlough those who work on the 737 Max while production is stopped, there are fears suppliers will have no choice.
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But unlike many other federal agencies that will have to furlough essential staff and put their work on hold, the military is largely exempt from a shutdown and will continue to operate normally.
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Things got so bad last year, that, in an effort to cut costs, roughly 20 percent of school districts in the state enacted a furlough cutting the school week down to just four days.
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The Environment Protection Agency is set to soon run out of money, and will furlough employees on Saturday if no funding deal is reached by the end of the day Friday, Bloomberg Environment reports.
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But in the cash-strapped aftermath of the split with Evergrande, the startup now has fewer than 400 people working on reduced payroll in the US through the furlough, according to one current employee.
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Reckhorn mentioned in the email that he is "think[ing] about opening an emergency fund" for employees in "dire needs" as a result of the furlough, and that he's putting in $10,000 to start.
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Belgian authorities are still investigating the motives of Herman, a 31-year-old Belgian drug dealer who had been in jail for years but was on furlough when he went on a killing spree.
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Grijalva has also questioned whether Interior has followed the law when it brought back from furlough workers to approve onshore drilling permits and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, among other actions.
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The only bill to become law, the Federal Law Enforcement Self-Defense and Protection Act of 2015, declares that a federal law enforcement official is allowed to carry federally-issued firearms during a furlough.
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"While one recent meeting was delayed, we have recalled the necessary people back from furlough in order to do everything required to ensure a safe, secure, and minimally delayed event," the FAA representative said.
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U.S. airlines on Saturday warned they will have to furlough workers unless Congress approves a $250 billion aid package that includes grants, not only loans, as the industry reels from the impact of coronavirus.
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A union source told Reuters on Wednesday that the furlough will last from March 30 through April 12 and has yet to be formalized, but is expected to be signed later in the day.
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Even businesses that have furloughed employees due to forced closures under state and local mandates may claim the credit as long as they are still paying their workers wages or health benefits on furlough.
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France on Friday pledged to unleash tens of billions of euros to prevent a potential jump in unemployment by paying small and medium-size businesses slammed by the epidemic to keep workers on furlough.
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It focused on a black man who had raped a woman and assaulted her husband while free on a prison-furlough program in Massachusetts that was supported by the Democratic candidate, Michael S. Dukakis.
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They asked why he hadn't written, why he didn't call or tell them he had been transferred, or why he had not come to see them while he was on furlough, Ms. Kiser said.
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That could mean employers brought people on full-time because of the difficulty of finding new employees, although the average workweek declined slightly and many federal workers returned from furlough after the government shutdown.
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The GOP injected race into the story by highlighting the case of an African-American man named Willie Horton, who had escaped from the furlough program, raped a white woman and stabbed her partner.
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He notes that investigators were furloughed due to the government shutdown but "NTSB recalled four investigators from furlough ... to assist with proper transcription" of the cockpit voice recorder, which was recovered in mid-January.
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Congressional leaders see another temporary extension as a better option than the alternative: a partial shutdown that would furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers and shutter landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty.
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Alex Howard, deputy director of nonprofit open-government advocacy group Sunlight Foundation, told me in a phone conversation that agencies use their own discretion on what staff is essential and who goes on furlough.
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Meta has been financially struggling since last September, when the Trump administration's trade war with China derailed a round of funding led by a Chinese investor, forcing the company to furlough nearly all its employees.
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Having gone through the shutdown and cuts mandated through sequestration in 2013, Simon said he was "surprised" by the small number of individuals then who were deemed "essential" and excluded from the original furlough order.
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In the interim, thousands of employees of federal agencies such as the Homeland Security, Justice, Commerce, Interior, Transportation, Agriculture and other departments were staying at home on furlough or soon to be working without pay.
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More than 380,000 federal employees would be placed on furlough, according to the fact sheet, including the majority of the staff at NASA, the National Park Service and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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The employees who distribute news and work to keep the public informed of the department's activities via Twitter and Facebook were sent home on furlough, none serving an essential law enforcement or national security function.
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Courts across Iran have granted eligible inmates furlough as part of the measures to contain coronavirus in the country, said Judiciary Chief Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Raeisi, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency on Monday.
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"The furlough plan calls for reduced working hours at reduced pay, or no working hours at no pay, for the hopefully short period of time when AMC's theatres are all closed," the AMC spokesperson said.
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A congressional subcommittee estimated that the furlough cost taxpayers between $80 million and $90 million, including administrative costs, such as figuring out who could and couldn't work and paying workers who didn't end up working.
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Ms. Simon said a shutdown would be an "economic disaster" for federal employees, and said she is concerned that national parks my remain open by the government paying contractors while sending federal workers on furlough.
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But instead of the slow and painful ripple effect we're seeing now, a nationwide shutdown will eliminate some uncertainty and imbalance and should allow many businesses to simply furlough workers without fully laying them off.
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"What is outrageous is that our non-detained courts were shut down for the government furlough, for political reasons," said Dana Leigh Marks, a San Francisco immigration judge and former president of the judges' union.
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Brazil's Embraer SA, the world's third-largest aircraft maker, said on Sunday it would furlough all non-essential workers in Brazil where it makes regional jets and further measures could be announced later this week.
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With hundreds of thousands of manicurists and pedicurists facing furlough and layoffs (some with no benefits or eligibility for unemployment), there's never been a more crucial time to support your local salon or nail pro.
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The travel and hospitality industries are already being hit the hardest — three airlines including Air Canada have already announced a reduction in workforce and Marriott, the world's largest hotel company, is starting to furlough thousands.
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Last week, Santander Brasil said it would furlough part of its workforce for 15 days in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro as it closes some branches in both cities due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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This is what happened in October 2013, the last time budget gridlock forced a 16-day shutdown that sent millions of government workers on furlough and gummed up the works of the U.S. housing market.
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But a furlough of South Korean workers would also hurt the United States by disrupting military operations on the peninsula at a time when the coronavirus outbreak is already taking a toll on force readiness.
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Calhoun said Wednesday that Boeing is not planning to lay off or furlough any of its employees because of the production pause, even with Boeing's new estimate that regulators will approve the planes again midyear.
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The government pointed out that when Hinckley was released in 2011 on a work furlough he told supervisors he intended to go see movies ... which was approved -- but instead he went to a Barnes & Noble.
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Back in January 2013, the Atlanta Police Department started investigating inmates "temporarily escaping" from the medium-security US Penitentiary in the city, according to court documents filed in what appears to be the latest unapproved furlough.
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Moran, joined by commanders from the Army and Air Force, described an aging, overworked and undermanned air fleet that is feeling the weight of sequestration and furlough budget cuts implemented by Congress and the Obama administration.
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As the partial government shutdown slogs on, the Transportation Security Administration says an increasing number of its officers—who aren't being paid during the furlough – are facing financial difficulties, with some not showing up for work.
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He decried the "Gestapo tactics" of his arrest, though that may have been because federal agents—who were on furlough because of the government shutdown but reportedly volunteered for the job—feared he would destroy evidence.
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Without an infusion of new money, no matter how temporary, hundreds of thousands of "non-essential" federal workers may be put on furlough, while "essential" employees, dealing with public safety and national security, would continue working.
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At the DC Superior Court, Morris Williams is on furlough from his IT contract, but as a contract worker, he is unlikely to get back pay or paid for his work when the shutdown is over.
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The spot featured convicted murderer William "Willie" Horton, who had been able to escape while on such weekend furlough, and went on to rape a woman and stab her fiancé in a brutal 1987 home invasion.
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Also, VW's Brazil operation is putting workers on a 20-day furlough, the company said on Monday, citing reduced demand from Argentina, which is undergoing an economic crisis that has derailed growth and slashed spending power.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday approved a revised budget that incorporates unpaid furlough days and other cost-cutting measures to save $104 million to help address a $215 million pension funding shortfall.
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SA said it was sending 635 workers on furlough at its Barretos plant from June 17 to June 30 to carry out maintenance work at that facility, according to a statement sent to Reuters on Tuesday.
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"It's important to remember the true crisis is not at the border, but rather within the borders of the United States, beyond hardworking government employees being put on furlough and services being shut down," the Rev.
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Criminal justice reform for decades has been haunted by the specter of a man named Willie Horton, who violently raped a woman while he was out on a weekend pass allowed under a state furlough program.
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The shutdown, which is due in large part to a disagreement over how much federal funding should be allocated to border security, has put 380,000 federal employees on furlough, while another 420,000 are working without pay.
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The three largest U.S. airlines — Delta Air Lines American Air Lines and United Airlines — have sound balance sheets but are raising alarm bells with government officials about potentially having to furlough tens of thousands of employees.
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"We're doing everything we can to help get our teams through the furlough period while making certain there will be a stable company to return to," Tim League, the Alamo Drafthouse CEO, said in a statement.
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The Starr Restaurant Group in Philadelphia, which also placed its workers on indefinite furlough, similarly told employees they wouldn't be able to use vacation or sick days to keep getting paid after the restaurants shut down.
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United Airlines said on Friday it could lay off or furlough workers in the coming weeks if the federal government fails to finalize a bail out for the US airline sector by the end of March.
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The three largest U.S. airlines -- Delta Air Lines American Air Lines and United Airlines -- have sound balance sheets but are raising alarm bells with government officials about potentially having to furlough tens of thousands of employees.
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly is taking a 10% pay cut and was quoted in a media report as saying the carrier may ground airplanes and furlough employees, if conditions continue to worsen.
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Those individuals are defined as people who are diagnosed with COVID-19, spouses or dependents who have the disease or those experiencing financial consequences from quarantine, furlough, layoffs or having their hours cut due to coronavirus.
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Siamak is currently held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, while Baquer, a retired UNICEF official, had been detained there for two years but is now out on a temporary and highly restrictive medical furlough.
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Workers now deemed "resigned" are in addition to an estimated 2,000-3,000 workers Freeport placed on furlough as of mid-April, when approximately 10 percent of its 32,000 member workforce was "demobilized" under a cost-cutting effort.
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Hinckley, 61, is moving in with his elderly mother in a gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he has been making increasingly long furlough visits in recent years under the watchful eyes of the U.S. Secret Service.
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At the table next to ours, a woman in her forties on furlough from her job as a pastry chef on a cruise ship looked up from her book to stare at Paro squirming in my lap.
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Why do Republicans seem to think it would be embarrassing to shut down the government and furlough 800,000 federal workers over the holidays only during a presidential mourning period, as opposed to anytime and all the time?
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By summer, Mr. Bush picked up the theme, citing the case during speeches, and by fall, his campaign began airing an ad attacking the Massachusetts furlough program, showing a series of prisoners walking through a revolving door.
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ATHENS — Greek anarchists vandalized the Athens home of the United States ambassador with black paint on Wednesday, according to the police, in the latest protest against the authorities' rejection of a convicted terrorist's request for a furlough.
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WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - The chief executives of 10 U.S. passenger and cargo carriers on Saturday told Congress that unless they get direct cash assistance many will be forced to take "draconian measures" including to furlough workers.
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Few political veterans can forget the 1988 presidential campaign in which President George H.W. Bush bashed Michael Dukakis for releasing a prisoner, Willie Horton, on furlough who later went on to commit assault, armed robbery and rape.
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While Fakhoury's release appeared to be unrelated to COVID-19, Pompeo announced on Thursday that an American in Iran was released on medical furlough and has increased calls for the release of detained Americans in the country.
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Late in his term of service, he was pulled from duty on an emergency furlough to cook for President Charles de Gaulle, who had stopped in Auch for lunch while making a political tour of the southwest.
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Yet, on Friday, the federally-appointed financial oversight board announced the implementation of a two-day government furlough program beginning this September, along with a 22019-percent cut to public pension benefits beginning in fiscal year 2020.
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He had visited Russia since at least 2006 — the trip that year was part of a special military furlough program — and was familiar to numerous Russians who had known him or interacted with him on social media.
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At the same time, some federal workers subject to furlough are finding it difficult to get other jobs because of the government's ethics laws and restrictions on conflicts of interests still apply to federal workers during the shutdown.
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SAO PAULO, June 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian meat processor Minerva SA said on Thursday it has suspended a furlough announced last week for its Barretos beef processing facility, following news that a ban to exports to China has ended.
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In 2013, when the U.S. government was last shut down due to another stalemate, California-based Hornblower incurred losses of between $500,000 and $1 million and put between 30 and 50 of its employees on furlough, MacRae said.
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In another example, George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign ran months of ads about Willie Horton, an inmate who had raped and murdered a woman while out on a weekend furlough program, which his opponent, Michael Dukakis, supported.
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Unfortunately, we were required to suspend that investigation earlier this month because of the lapse in funding, and pursuant to guidance from our expert attorneys, the career staff that is working on this issue are currently on furlough.
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Transportation FCU, which primarily serves federal, state, and local government employees, is providing relief for members who are not receiving paychecks due to the shutdown by offering a 4.50% APR Furlough Loan with a minimum payment of $25.
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She was recently told by management at her surgery clinic that she has a choice staying on rotation, which would guarantee her half of her usual hours, or a voluntary furlough with the ability to apply for unemployment.
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While many outlets around the country have made access to their coronavirus coverage free to access, many have also felt the economic sting of the virus and have had to lay off or furlough parts of their staff.
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"The employer and union must reach an agreement on the conditions of the furlough, and employers must be careful to ensure they meet all terms of the agreement," explained Steven Katz, attorney at Katz, Pryor, and DiCuccio, LLP.
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While announcing the production suspension, Boeing said it had no plans to lay off or furlough any of the 12,7373 employees at the facility that assembles the 737 Max, instead temporarily reassigning workers to other tasks or teams.
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"This extension is absolutely necessary to prevent a shutdown of FAA programs, delays in airport construction projects, and the possible furlough of thousands of FAA employees across the country," House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said.
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This event gives women the ability to have coaching and personal time with Dellinger, who was able to mentor other women founders like The Furlough Cheesecake Sisters, who turned a government shutdown viral moment into a sustainable business.
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The matchless Mr. Hill, on furlough from his star-making role as Lord Varys on "Game of Thrones," possesses a fleshiness that allows his entire body to go slack as he reels early on from the cumulative blows.
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EV startup Faraday Future has told employees on "furlough," or unpaid leave, that it can no longer bring them back to work on March 1st as planned, according to an internal email sent Tuesday and obtained by The Verge.
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A key factor for Trump, the official said, were stories of law enforcement officials unable to adequately do their jobs because of the shutdown that had left 800,000 federal workers at home on furlough or working for no pay.
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Alex Lynch, a captain at The NoMad Restaurant in New York City who was put on a minimum 30-day furlough this week, said business slowed "dramatically" in the two weeks leading up to the city-mandated restaurant shutdown.
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The ads made by the Bush campaign and outside groups centered on Horton, a black criminal who broke into a Maryland house, raped a white woman and stabbed her husband while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison.
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At its peak, the last shutdown in 2013 resulted in the furlough of about 850,000 employees a day, or 40 percent of the federal civilian work force in the executive branch, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
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TORONTO/MONTREAL, March 24 (Reuters) - Air Canada has reached an agreement with its pilots association that would allow the airline to furlough up to 600 pilots, according to a letter from the union reviewed by Reuters showed on Tuesday.
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The March 3 email, shared with Reuters by a recipient on condition that the doctors name and affiliation be withheld, said the heavy volume of cases scotched plans to furlough workers who had been potentially exposed to the virus.
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For example, more than half of the employees at the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) cyber and infrastructure protection wing, the National Protection and Programs Directorate, are expected to be exempt from furlough, according to the department's contingency plan.
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The government partly shut down one day after Congress passed the bill and sent it to President Trump to sign into law, and many of the Justice Department employees who would have worked to fulfill it went on furlough.
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"Due to excessive unscheduled absences recently experienced at PSP (Palm Springs International airport) that has adversely impacted security operations, if you have an unscheduled absence, you will NOT be placed in an intermittent furlough status," Elam wrote, according to CNN.
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It seems like an innocent-enough interest, so a distraught Gloria unveils the full story of Benny, MCC's furlough promises, and her step-by-step escape plan (cut a hole in the fence and run through it with the hostages).
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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner's veto in December of $215 million in one-time funding for teacher pensions blew a hole in CPS' fiscal 2017 budget, which the district has partially filled with spending cuts and unpaid furlough days for teachers.
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At the recent U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, Buttigieg, who announced his long-shot bid and exploratory committee on Wednesday, said that his constituents in South Bend would not tolerate a shutdown that would close public services and furlough workers.
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Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a woman after he was granted a weekend furlough from prison in Massachusetts, was the subject of a withering 230 presidential campaign ad attacking the Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts governor at the time.
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While Dukakis had inherited the weekend furlough program from the previous Republican governor (a guy named Francis Sargent), he hadn't ended it soon enough to keep Horton from taking advantage of the program and committing the kidnapping, stabbing and rape.
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"I thank Iran for its humanitarian act to grant Nazanin Zaghari furlough and her meeting with her family, and we hope that this approach will continue until the release and the pardon of such people," Burt said, according to IRNA.
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With negotiations between Washington and Seoul at a deadlock and the mutual agreement on cost-sharing, formally called Special Measures Agreement, having expired at the end of 2018, thousands of South Korean employees of the U.S. military face furlough in April.
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In November 216, President Reagan, in a fight with Congress over $8.5 billion in budget cuts he wanted, ordered the furlough of 241,000 of government employees, the first time a shutdown of that size was ordered, The New York Times reported.
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"A loan, even a zero-interest loan, is taking on additional debt based on a hope that someday the furlough will end," said Moses Milazzo, a furloughed employee of the United States Geological Survey whose wife is also a federal employee.
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But Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the agency's commissioner, said that he was asking employees to return from furlough to conduct some of the inspections and other agency functions involving surveillance of certain drugs, devices and potential outbreaks of food-borne illnesses.
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A British woman of Iranian descent incarcerated in Iran on sedition charges since 2016 was granted a three-day furlough on Thursday to see her young daughter and other relatives, a break in a bitter dispute between Britain and Iran.
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The Senate passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill late Wednesday night to help boost the economy as the coronavirus pandemic forces businesses to close and furlough employees across the US. It awaits passage by the House and President Trump's signature.
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The company employs approximately 139,000 workers in the US. Marriott did not respond to request for comment, On March 17, Marriott International, said it has started to furlough what could amount to tens of thousands of employees, Business Insider previously reported.
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That included $25 billion in direct cash grants for passenger carriers, $4 billion for cargo airlines and $3 billion for airline contractors, such as catering workers, in exchange for their employers agreeing not to furlough workers through the end of September.
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The company, which manages and maintains some of London's landmarks, together with high street buildings and homes, said it was looking at additional support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which will help "furlough" rather than lay off some staff.
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Norwegian Air will temporarily lay off up to half of its workforce, MGM Resorts is starting to furlough and lay off workers through June 1003, and travel agencies across the US are steadily letting go of employees as bookings fall through.
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The longtime adviser to former President Barack Obama is scheduled to give this year's commencement speech at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago — at the same time that the university shut down operations over its spring break and announced additional furlough days.
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SAO PAULO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA will furlough almost 15,000 workers in January, a metalworkers union said on Thursday, ahead of a partial takeover by Boeing Co as part of a deal that still needs regulatory approval.
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DETROIT – The United Auto Workers' strike against General Motors, now in its 23rd day, has brought the majority of the automaker's North American production to a standstill and prompted it to furlough more than 10,000 of its non-UAW employees.
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Judith Smith, a National Park Service employee, was one of the many workers facing furlough, but instead of stressing about not receiving a paycheck, she cashed out $30 million by winning New Jersey's largest Pick-6 jackpot since May 2004.
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In addition to security operations, many other services are deemed essential -- the mail still goes out, Social Security benefits come in -- and continue without funding, though thousands of other federal workers across the country would go on furlough and offices close.
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The Horton ad was a race-based attack centered on the rape of a white woman by Mr. Horton, who is black, while he was free via a Massachusetts weekend furlough program that Mr. Dukakis had supported as the state's governor.
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In the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers much of the West, one idea being considered is to close the appellate courthouses to the public for one weekday per week and furlough employees that day.
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While federal workers are likely to receive back pay once the furlough ends, most government contractors will not, and the longer spending is depressed, the higher the risk that the businesses they run or patronize will fail, Mr. Shepherdson said.
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For example, even in normal times 3,000 people a year die in the United States from food-borne illness, yet the Food and Drug Administration has now had to stop most routine food inspections, with inspectors sent home on furlough.
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"Unfortunately, we were required to suspend that investigation earlier this month because of the lapse in funding, and pursuant to guidance from our expert attorneys, the career staff that is working on this issue are currently on furlough," the statement reads.
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The FCC plans to furlough more than 20 percent of its staff and will cease all work that is not "required for the protection of life and property" or related to spectrum auctions, which are funded by the sale of spectrum licenses.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - JBS SA, the world's biggest meatpacker, said on Wednesday it would furlough workers at 10 of its 36 Brazilian beef plants after sales fell sharply due to a police probe into bribery of health inspectors in Brazil's meat industry.
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NEW YORK, Aug 30(Reuters) - Puerto Rico's already frail economy faces a fresh test this week, as the bankrupt U.S. territory's financial overseers try to force a defiant governor to furlough public workers, the single biggest block of employees on the island.
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Friedman said Hinckley will be required to spend at least a year living with his mother, Jo Ann, 90, in Williamsburg, Virginia, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Washington, where he has been making increasingly long furlough visits for several years.
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In an all-hands meeting held Monday, Jia told the some 600 employees who have stuck with the company (at a reduced salary) through the furlough that Faraday Future is "receiving interest from investors from around the world," according to a company statement.
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Members of the Rubicon group unfurled a banner in front of the 5th century B.C. Parthenon temple Thursday, accusing the government of trying to "assassinate" Dimitris Koufodinas, a November 17 group member who is on hunger strike to demand a furlough from prison.
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During the furlough, the company said, Minerva can continue to export beef to Asia from other plants in South America, referring to four units belonging to subsidiary Athena Foods based in Uruguay and Argentina, which were not affected by Brazil's temporary ban.
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Economists were quick to point to the fact that the government data has been inconsistent since the government shutdown and may have been affected by both the 35-day shutdown and a temporary work furlough for government employees and private sector contractors.
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Hundreds of National Transportation Safety Board workers and thousands of Federal Aviation Administration employees who investigate significant vehicle, plane and rail crashes have been on furlough since the partial federal shutdown began on December 22, leaving new and ongoing investigations on hold.
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On January 3, with the government shut down and many staffers on furlough, the President decided to appear in the White House Briefing Room for the first time, flanked by law enforcement officials who backed his demand to build a border wall.
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For the 380,000 federal employees on furlough and the other 420,000 working without pay, this means it's time to start making plans for how to pay January bills without the promise of their next paycheck as part of the government remains shutdown.
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General Electric said earlier on Monday that it will lay off 10% of U.S. workers in its crucial jet engine unit — equal to about 2,600 people — and furlough engine maintenance and overhaul employees for 90 days because of the drop in demand.
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Threatening to throw the government into chaos — to furlough, or in the case of personnel deemed "essential," withhold paychecks from hundreds of thousands of workers — lets him exact a bit of cathartic payback, reminding lawmakers just how uncomfortable he can make their lives.
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His 1988 campaign infamously strove to tie his opponent, Michael Dukakis, to an African-American named Willie Horton who committed rape after being released on a weekend furlough program — an effort for which Mr. Bush's attack-dog campaign manager, Lee Atwater, later apologized.
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In a late-afternoon call with the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the administration will call back a significant number of I.R.S. employees from furlough, in order to issue refunds.
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While cruise lines, hotels, and other travel companies furlough or lay off employees in the wake of the coronavirus, Carnival Corporation's CEO told employees in a video sent out early this week that he isn't planning layoffs or pay cuts through June.
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Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading on Friday: Cheesecake Factory — Shares of the restaurant chain plunged more than 217.7% after the company announced that it would furlough 218,27 hourly workers and slash the pay of executives and salaried employees.
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L Brands, the owner of Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret, said on Friday that it would furlough most store associates "plus those who are not currently working to support the online businesses or who cannot work from home" starting April 5.
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They were visiting New York on a twenty-four-hour furlough from El Celler de Can Roca, their dining establishment in northeast Spain, which, according to a list issued annually by the World's 50 Best Restaurants * , is currently the best on the planet.
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In Brooklyn, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York is planning to furlough some court employees, and groups that use courthouse facilities for occasions like bar association meetings or continuing legal education are being told to make other plans.
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The potential impairment of so many investigations has prompted some air-safety experts to question why the agency did not keep more investigators working in the United States, even as some were taken off furlough to help with crashes in other countries.
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The spare parts inventory for the 400-foot Polar Star's three Pratt and Whitney gas turbine engines were "below safety stock levels," the documents said, and an employee was taken off furlough to work on a maintenance contract issue for the vessel.
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This spot has been compared repeatedly to the notorious Willie Horton ad, which blamed 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis for a rape committed by a murderer who was out of prison on a furlough, because Dukakis had been governor of Massachusetts at the time.
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If the shutdown goes beyond that, courts would need to make the same decisions as other agencies about which employees to furlough and which services to halt or scale back; during the 2013 shutdown, some courts declared all employees essential to the administration of justice.
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We are grateful to all of the one thousand global employees, especially hundreds of employees in the US who are willing to stay and continue to work on the FF 91 production and delivery as well as those who will be on a temporary furlough.
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The ad, paid for by supporters of the elder George Bush, shredded the Massachusetts governor for the prison furlough program that granted Mr. Horton a weekend pass on which he escaped and committed a brutal home invasion and rape that sent him back to prison.
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The only ones speaking out are families and loved one of the detainees, correctional staff who worked partially while on furlough in the cold and dark; the attorneys; and, of course, the detainees, who could be heard banging on the icy windows in protest.
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Typically in the event of a shutdown, some federal employees deemed essential continue to work, but their pay is withheld until the shutdown is over, while other federal employees are placed on furlough, meaning they are effectively put on a leave of absence without pay.
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Last week, the family of American prisoner Siamak Namazi put out a statement asking for help getting him a temporary furlough as a fellow prisoner had tested positive for the coronoavirus, countless others are sick and there are no medicines to treat the ill.
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So while his younger brother protested the furlough outside the federal office complex in wind-whipped weather, Steve was enjoying the last day of his scheduled paid vacation in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where he swam with dolphins and drank piña coladas by the beach.
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"It's indefensible to not appreciate the role and responsibility that there is to make sure the government runs smoothly," said A. Ashley Tabaddor, a federal immigration judge in Los Angeles and president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, who is currently on furlough.
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The company's management said in a memo to the more than 1,000 people it employs that they were being put on a mandatory, unpaid furlough, but that their health benefits would continue and that they would receive some extra pay with their last check.
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The U.S. Health and Human Services Department, in a contingency plan posted on its website, has said it would place slightly more than half of its almost 82,000 workers on furlough if the government shuts down due to lack of funding appropriations by Congress.
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While Boeing has said it has no immediate plans to lay off or furlough those who work on the 737 Max while production is stopped, there are fears more suppliers will have no choice but to follow the lead of Spirit and GE Aviation.
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Thousands will lose their healthcare coverage, a furlough program seems unavoidable, pensioners will get a 85033 percent cut out of their monthly checks which in many cases top less that $1,000, and the University of Puerto Rico gets a reduction of a quarter its budget.
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SAO PAULO, June 11 (Reuters) - Brazilian meat-packer Minerva SA said it was sending 700 workers on furlough at its Barretos plant from June 17 to June 30 to carry out maintenance work at that facility, according to a statement sent to Reuters on Tuesday.
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As the New York Times noted during the 1988 campaign, Dukakis hadn't started his state's furlough programs, such programs were widespread throughout the country, and crimes committed by furloughed inmates were rare—but none of that helped Dukakis shake the idea that he was soft on crime.
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It's unlikely that the shutdown forced the NSF to furlough the intern responsible for hand cranking the agency's servers to keep the website online, which leads one to wonder why it didn't just leave its website as is and just not respond to emails during the shutdown.
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Even if the work of some of these scientists may not be directly related to human safety, invaluable scientific work is inevitably lost in the process of the shutdown, and in many cases government employees are legally barred from working once they are placed on unpaid furlough.
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"This recall expansion was previously announced independently on January 17, 2019 by the firm due to US government furlough," reads the CPSC's website dedicated to the HP recall, which was updated on Tuesday of this week to include news of the most recent January 2019 expansion.
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With all but the most essential government staff and contractors — air-traffic controllers and safety oversight workers, for example — on furlough, the software fix that was originally expected to be delivered as early as January was delayed a further five weeks, The Journal said, citing US officials.
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Atwater wanted to capitalize on an issue that had emerged involving Dukakis' support of a weekend furlough program in Massachusetts that had allowed one prisoner named Willie Horton, who is African-American, to go free, after which he raped a white woman and stabbed her partner.
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According to Mikaela Kiner, founder and CEO of Reverb, a people operations consulting firm, each company also needs to take into account the following legal considerations:Employees should be selected for furlough based on job responsibilities, without regard for race, gender, age, pregnancy, or other protected classes.
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Her husband Richard, who has set up the "Free Nazanin" campaign group and lobbied the British government to secure his wife's release, said in a statement she had been temporarily released on furlough from Evin Prison and was now staying at her parents' home in West Tehran.
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Truthfully, my hardest job as a commander during the shutdowns I experienced was counseling the families and providing continuous information to them to calm their anxieties: what services had stopped, what facilities were open, when were they going to be paid, when were they coming off furlough.
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The good news for the Democratic presidential candidates is that none of them can be personally connected to the bail reform law the way the George H.W. Bush campaign successfully saddled then-Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis with prison furlough programs in the infamous Willie Horton ad.
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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in February had pegged its budget shortfall at $129 million after ordering spending cuts and unpaid furlough days to help deal with Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner's veto of $215 million in one-time state cash the district had budgeted for teacher pensions.
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The company, which says it has a strong balance sheet, will also furlough a "significant proportion" of its staff so they can secure funding from the government under an emergency state aid package for businesses.. "These are unprecedented times," Executive Chairman John Tutte said on Friday.
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Without Taylor's science report, the season could be delayed—and the impact of the shutdown could spread beyond the 800,000 government employees now on furlough to include boat captains, deck hands, and others working in the seafood industry who won't be able to head to sea on schedule.
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SAO PAULO, March 19 (Reuters) - Banco Santander Brasil SA will put part of its workforce on furlough for 15 days in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as it closes part of its branches in both cities due to the coronavirus outbreak, it said on a statement on Thursday.
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"The reason why the Willie Horton ad is so important in the political landscape — it wasn't just about a racist ad that misrepresented the furlough process," said Marcia Chatelain, a Georgetown University professor of African-American history who teaches a class on race and racism in the White House.
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The Bush camp decided to portray Mr. Dukakis as a Massachusetts liberal, highlighting his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union and his having supported a program that provided a weekend furlough to a prisoner, Willie Horton, who had raped a woman while free from jail one weekend.
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President Donald Trump had directed the EPA last year to allow summer-time sales of so-called E15 by summer as a way of helping corn farmers that supply the ethanol industry, but the process was hindered by a weeks-long partial government shutdown that put many EPA staff on furlough.
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On Friday, the shutdown reached a new milestone by stretching into its 21st day and matching the record for the longest government shutdown in US history, and for many of those federal employees work without pay or on furlough, today marks the first full paycheck they'll miss under the shutdown.
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"The contractor has to decide whether to furlough the worker, force them to use vacation days, or just pay them a stipend out of their own pocket, which they probably won't be paid back," says Tony Anikeeff, who co-chairs the government contracts practice at the Williams Mullen law firm.
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"And so what we'll say, if we were to see that negative number: 'Well sure, it was negative, but if you adjust for the furlough, it looks like another plus-200 month or something like that,'" Council of Economic Advisers chairman Kevin Hassett told reporters last week at the White House.
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"Our parks will remain closed and are unable to generate revenue; therefore, we have made the painful but necessary business decision to temporarily furlough over 90% of our current workforce, including corporate employees, to position the company for long-term viability," SeaWorld shared Friday in a statement with CNN Business.
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" United Chief Executive Oscar Munoz and union leaders at the airline said in a letter to U.S. officials on Monday the "financial support that you provide would allow United to continue paying our employees as we weather this crisis – protecting tens of thousands of people from imposing a temporary furlough.
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" United Chief Executive Oscar Munoz and union leaders at the airline said in a letter to U.S. officials on Monday the "financial support that you provide would allow United to continue paying our employees as we weather this crisis – protecting tens of thousands of people from imposing a temporary furlough.
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Tesla is putting some employees in Norway on furlough for at least one month beginning in April, according to an internal email sent on Tuesday by Axel Tangen, Tesla's director of Northern Europe, marking the first time the electric-car maker has cut its workforce in response to the novel coronavirus.
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" United Chief Executive Oscar Munoz and union leaders at the airline warned in a letter to U.S. officials on Monday that "financial support that you provide would allow United to continue paying our employees as we weather this crisis – protecting tens of thousands of people from imposing a temporary furlough.
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Since the ruling may be delayed by two to three months, FF will continue to experience a negative impact on our already very tight cash flow, therefore we unfortunately must take further cost-reduction measures to deal with the current financial situation which includes putting additional employees on furlough beginning this week.
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"All other House personnel shall be placed in a furlough status by the appropriate employing authority until further appropriations are made," Committee Chairman Gregg HarperGregory (Gregg) Livingston HarperCongress sends bill overhauling sexual harassment policy to Trump's desk Dems cry foul in undecided N.C. race Mississippi New Members 2019 MORE (R-Miss.) wrote.
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She went on to paint a dystopian picture of abandoned airline infrastructure not unlike what readers had encountered in the blockbuster line of Left Behind novels by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye: security checkpoints closed, safety inspectors absent, federal cybersecurity staff on furlough, and airport security personnel forced to work without pay.
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In a call recording obtained by ProPublica between a dispatcher and then-jail administrator Arthur Busby, Busby asks if Weaver had insurance or Medicaid in an effort to figure out who would pay for her medical care — including potentially putting her on "furlough" and calling her family to take her to the doctor.
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But his 1988 bid was partly undone by a racist campaign waged by then Vice President George H.W. Bush — now universally admired as an elder statesman — who dredged up a rape committed by an African-American convict named Willie Horton while on a temporary release from prison thanks to Massachusetts' weekend furlough program.
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The most drastic response from a major metropolitan daily has come out of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., where The Advocate and The Times-Picayune — now one news organization, after The Advocate bought The Times-Picayune last year — will furlough 10 percent of the work force, the editor, Peter Kovacs, said Monday.
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The most drastic response from a major metropolitan daily has come out of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., where The Advocate and The Times-Picayune — now one news organization, after The Advocate bought The Times-Picayune last year — will furlough 10 percent of the work force, the editor, Peter Kovacs, said Monday.
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The former MTV VJ will be releasing a clothing line with Lord & Taylor towards the end of the summer, promoting the newest season of the drama series POWER, coming fresh off the set of Furlough starring Whoopi Goldberg and working with Queen Latifah to bring her first book The Love Playbook to the big screen.
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Top White House officials descended on the Capitol on Friday to huddle with Republican leaders in an eleventh-hour search for a breakthrough, but the modest progress wasn't enough to keep roughly a quarter of the federal government running, resulting in the furlough of hundreds of thousands of federal employees just three days before Christmas.
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Right next to the new president was Lee Atwater, his campaign manager, who was criticized then — and is best remembered now — for racially inflammatory tactics like the notorious Willie Horton TV spot, which featured the mug shot of Horton, an African-American prisoner who raped a white woman while out on a weekend furlough.
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Under pressure from the media and international human rights groups, the judiciary granted Manouchehr — whose vertebrae had been fractured by prison beatings — a furlough to attend a memorial for his brother, and with the help of Iran's Kurdish Democratic Party, he managed to escape to Iraq, and then Turkey, and make his way to the United States.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) objected to the cost of a bipartisan spending deal but it did not result in the furlough of any federal workers.
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Protesters are pushing to end the stalemate over reopening the government, after funding for about 25% of the government expired on December 22, having many widespread consequences including the shuttering of some national parks, longer lines at airports and hundreds of thousands of federal employees going without paychecks, some on furlough and some required to work.
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In 1988, George Bush's campaign aired its infamous "Willie Horton" ad, blaming his Democratic rival, the Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, for a deadly weekend crime spree by a black convicted murderer out on furlough in Dukakis's state; Dukakis, seeking to avoid being caricatured as a soft-on-crime liberal, embraced a hawkish law-enforcement platform on the campaign trail.
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Mike SimpsonMIchael (Mike) Keith SimpsonHouse passes Paycheck Fairness Act Press: Democrats dare to think big Dem chairwoman seeks watchdog probe of Park Service's shutdown operations MORE (R-Idaho) speculated that the Park Service may be able to justify bringing back staff under existing shutdown furlough exemptions for health and safety, citing issues like overflowing toilets and damage to trees.
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It comes amid other financial pressures — the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union voted on Wednesday to approve a one-day walkout on April 1 in protest of budget cuts and forced furlough days — and at a time when the state is in its second year without a budget because its Democratic legislators and Republican governor cannot agree.
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Without outside help, the trajectory of demise for many nonprofits is clear: the executive directors and boards delay taking tough restructuring actions; the organizations have to stiff their vendors, then furlough or lay off staff; the founders stop paying themselves; and finally, they shut down when the bank account is dry and payroll can't be made.
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If a shutdown continues into the morning -- as most agencies begin their workdays and government operations not authorized to continue during a shutdown would normally begin -- workers across the government would begin to go on furlough until appropriations resume, although the OMB official noted that those affected would be able to work for four hours to smooth the process.
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Mr. Woodfox's lawyers highlighted not only the inconsistency of the accounts but also incentives that in some cases were undisclosed by prosecutors before trial: an unusual furlough for one witness, a governor's pardon for another and for one, a transfer to a custody situation with such minimal security that he was able to rob three banks while still under state supervision.
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"We've heard many times what happened to this country when the Republican candidate for president was playing Willie Horton ads," Ms. Sloan said, referring to an infamous ad in the 1988 presidential race that highlighted the story of a black man who had raped a white woman and assaulted her husband while free on a prison-furlough program supported by Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate.
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Companies like U.S. Steel report, you know the media reports these stories, like you know, after five years of after mothballing the plant they're finally bringing back workers from furlough and bringing back a dozen workers and they put that in a huge media headline and then the president goes 'Exactly, America is coming back!' and that's the narrative that people start to believe.
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After receiving slightly reduced paychecks late in December, the employees — as well as some government contractors — are either working without pay or are on furlough amid the partisan fight over funding for President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's proposed border wall.
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