They call it a “government shutdown.” But of about 4.1 million people who work for the federal government, about 80% will still be expected to show up for work.
We still dont have an exact number of federal employees who wont be working in a shutdown, but most press reports have been pegging the number around 800,000, the number who stayed home the last time the government shut down in 1996.
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Effects of a Federal Government Shutdown – Effects on Federal Officials and Employees
An immediate shutdown effect is the “shutdown furlough” of certain federal employees—that is, placement of the employees in a temporary, nonduty, nonpay status. Shutdown furloughs are not considered a break in service and are generally creditable for retaining benefits and seniority.
There appears to be no guarantee that employees placed on shutdown furlough would receive pay for the time they are placed on furlough. This may be the case, because if furloughed employees are prohibited from coming to work during a shutdown, the government arguably would not be incurring a legal obligation to pay them. Several considerations, including personnel costs, future productivity, and retention, might be weighed when assessing the issue of retroactive pay for furloughed staff. However, in the case of excepted employees, OMB has stated several times in detailed, shutdown-related guidance to agencies that without further specific direction or enactment by Congress, all excepted employees are entitled to receive payment for obligations incurred by their agencies for their performance of excepted work during the period of the appropriations lapse. After appropriations are enacted, payroll centers will pay all excepted employees for time worked.
Nevertheless, in historical practice, federal employees who have been furloughed under a shutdown (i.e., those who were not excepted) generally have received their salaries retroactively as a result of legislation to that effect.
As noted earlier, the two most recent funding gaps and corresponding shutdowns occurred in FY1996. The first, which lasted five full days between November 13-19, 1995, resulted in the furlough of approximately 800,000 federal employees. It was caused by the expiration of a continuing resolution agreed to on September 30, 1995 (P.L. 104-31), and by President Clinton’s veto of a second continuing resolution. The second FY1996 partial shutdown of the federal
government lasted 21 full days between December 15, 1995, and January 6, 1996. The shutdown was triggered by the expiration of a continuing resolution enacted on November 20, 1995 (P.L. 104-56), which funded the government through December 15, 1995. On January 2, 1996, the estimate of furloughed federal employees was 284,000. Another 475,000 excepted federal employees continued to work in nonpay status. There was a total of eight continuing resolutions from January 6, 1996, until April 26, 1996, when the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-134) was enacted. This consolidated appropriations act provided budget authority for agencies and programs not covered in the FY1996 annual appropriations acts that had already become law. A graphical depiction of the FY1996 appropriations process, including the two funding gaps, is available in another CRS report.
a break in service and are generally creditable for retaining benefits and seniority.
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