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• Employees are receiving renewed furlough notices as shutdown enters second month, this time without back pay guarantees - November 3, 2025

• The shutdown is heading into November, sparking new, altered furlough notices to 650,000 employees.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  The government shutdown is poised to enter its second month on Saturday, meaning agencies across government on Friday once again sent furlough notices to hundreds of thousands of workers.

  To maintain clarity between shutdown furloughs and more permanent and planned cost-saving measures, notices are required to go out every 30 days. The current funding lapse entered its 31st day on Friday—and could next week surpass the record-setting, 35-day impasse from 2018-2019—which required a fresh, formal update from agencies letting around 650,000 employees know they should remain at home without working.

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