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The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (GEFTA) is a United States federal law which requires retroactive pay and leave accrual for federal employees affected by the furlough as a result of the 2018–19 federal government shutdown and any future lapses in appropriations. [1]
On January 10, the Senate approved by unanimous consent a bill (S.24, the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019) providing that furloughed federal employees would receive back pay for the period of the furlough once appropriations were restored; the bill was approved the next day by the House on a vote of 411–7.
In the wake of November's stop-gap bill to fund the federal government through early 2024, MoneyGeek looks at the ways in which a government shutdown would impact the lives of federal employees.
The 16-day shutdown had considerable impact upon the United States: approximately 800,000 federal employees were put on furlough, while an additional 1.3 million had to report to work without any known payment dates during this period, [38] costing the government millions in back pay; [75] major government programmes concerning Native Americans ...
The fate of hundreds of thousands of federal employees and the work they do rests on Congress' ability to extend government funding beyond Friday. What federal workers would lose pay during a ...
Federal workers were told they could take part in a "deferred resignation program" in exchange for eight-months of pay. 'We were blindsided': Federal workers react to buy-out offer Skip to main ...
Lost wages of Federal employees will amount to about $1 billion a week. [177] Goldman Sachs estimated that a three-week shutdown would reduce the gross domestic product of the United States by 0.9%. [178] According to the Los Angeles Times, a two-week shutdown would reduce GDP growth in the fourth quarter by 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points. By ...
The Bill also would eliminate the delayed statutory pay adjustment contained in the 2013 Continuing Appropriations Resolution that was permitted to take effect with the first applicable pay period beginning after March 27, 2013. The Bill would only prevent an across-the-board increase to all federal employees' pay.