The partial government shutdown cost the FCC 19,000...
The partial government shutdown cost the FCC 19,000 days of employee furlough time over 16 days in October, said an Office of Management and Budget report Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/1dSlAN7). During the shutdown, employees deemed nonessential weren’t allowed to work, and Congress…
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passed a law providing back pay for the entire shutdown once it ended. Total employee furlough days for the Commerce Department were 312,000, the Homeland Security Department 303,000, the Justice Department 200,000 and State Department 4,000, said OMB. It said the government-wide total of furloughed days was roughly 6.6 million, larger than in any past shutdown (http://1.usa.gov/1bfl1cA).