A letter from Acting IRS Human Capital Officer David Traynor to IRS employees stated that although workers would be "placed in non-pay and non-duty status during the furlough," GEFTA requires that federal workers who are "furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations to be compensated for the period of the lapse." It adds that they must be compensated on the "earliest date possible" after the lapse comes to a close.
I hope that the furloughed workers receive back pay, of course. We have some extraordinary Americans who serve the federal government they serve valiantly and they work hard and they serve in these various agencies doing really important work, Johnson told a reporter.
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