When employees go on strike, employers don’t pay them for that lost time. This is neither a new idea nor is it controversial.

Thousands of federal workers furloughed or working without pay during the government shutdown will receive back pay in a matter of days. An estimated 730,000 working without pay and 670,000 on ...

Furloughed government workers began returning to work on Thursday, but for many, especially those who will not receive pay for the work missed, there may be no return to normal. In 2018, it took ...

The formal order to pay TSA staff came out Friday, as a Senate-passed DHS funding deal appeared poised to fall apart in the ...

As the U.S. government shutdown reaches its 28th day, hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain furloughed, with President Donald Trump threatening to block back pay once the shutdown ends. In ...

After 42 days without pay, thousands of federal workers across the country are returning to their jobs, including right here in Atlanta. For the first time in more than a month, employees say they can ...

As the government shutdown nears an end, the Trump administration has developed an agency-by-agency projection to get paychecks out to hundreds of thousands of federal employees who have gone without ...

Some federal workers who are not being paid during the government shutdown have a nagging fear: They might not receive retroactive pay once the impasse is resolved. Roughly 1.4 million federal ...

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