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• Federal agency contingency plans lay in wait for shutdown notices - September 5, 2023

• By Molly Weisner and Leo Shane III, Federal Times

  It’s the question on everyone’s mind: will the government pass a budget on time this year?
  
  Although the threat of a shutdown is a near-annual fixture of government work and many seasoned federal employees say they won’t worry about it until it happens, a shutdown, even a partial one, affects hundreds of thousands of federal workers who could stop getting paid on a dime.
  
  The Office of Personnel Management has acknowledged that an agency will have “very little to no lead time” to implement a shutdown furlough. While agencies do have plans in place ahead of time, employees may not know whether they’ll be triggered until the last day of the government fiscal year.

  To read the full article, click here.

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