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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1185062" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>[FONT=ARIAL,VERDANA,HELVETICA][SIZE=+7][/SIZE][/FONT]<strong><a href="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/08/nearly-every-major-agency-has-reduced-furloughs/68660/?oref=dropdown" target="_blank">Nearly Every Major Agency Has Reduced Furloughs </a></strong></p><p><strong></strong> When sequestration was about to kick in, the Obama administration began a nearly across-the-board campaign to discuss the devastating impact the automatic cuts would have on agency operations.</p><p></p><p> While many federal agencies have in fact moved forward with furloughs, and there remain countless examples of sequestration interfering with government operations, most major departments have reduced, or eliminated altogether, original furlough projections.</p><p> The <a href="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/05/most-promised-furloughs-never-came-year/63329/" target="_blank">earliest examples</a> came from departments that told Congress they would have to furlough employees, but ended up backtracking. The Education and Justice departments fall into this category. The Agriculture, Transportation, and Homeland Security departments all received authority to transfer funds between agency accounts, and were therefore able to cancel planned furloughs. The Commerce Department promised furloughs at its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, only to <a href="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/06/noaa-cancels-planned-employee-furloughs/64106/" target="_blank">cancel them</a> in May.</p><p>The most significant example of agency furloughs has come from the Defense Department. The Pentagon originally planned to furlough all 750,000 civilians for 22 days. It then used reprogramming to <a href="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/05/most-promised-furloughs-never-came-year/63329/" target="_blank">trim that number to 11</a> days, and more recently -- <a href="http://www.defenseone.com/management/2013/08/how-pentagon-found-1-billion-cut-civilian-furloughs-just-six-days/68192/?oref=search_one%20billion%20furlough%20six" target="_blank">through a series</a> of cost-cutting measures and inter-service transfer of funds -- reduced the days of unpaid leave to six.</p><p>Several agencies have relied on “internal reviews” of their financial conditions, during which they discovered cost-cutting measures had made their situations less dire than originally anticipated. This, in turn, allowed them to cut required furlough days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1185062, member: 12952"] [FONT=ARIAL,VERDANA,HELVETICA][SIZE=+7][/SIZE][/FONT][B][URL="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/08/nearly-every-major-agency-has-reduced-furloughs/68660/?oref=dropdown"]Nearly Every Major Agency Has Reduced Furloughs [/URL] [/B] When sequestration was about to kick in, the Obama administration began a nearly across-the-board campaign to discuss the devastating impact the automatic cuts would have on agency operations. While many federal agencies have in fact moved forward with furloughs, and there remain countless examples of sequestration interfering with government operations, most major departments have reduced, or eliminated altogether, original furlough projections. The [URL="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/05/most-promised-furloughs-never-came-year/63329/"]earliest examples[/URL] came from departments that told Congress they would have to furlough employees, but ended up backtracking. The Education and Justice departments fall into this category. The Agriculture, Transportation, and Homeland Security departments all received authority to transfer funds between agency accounts, and were therefore able to cancel planned furloughs. The Commerce Department promised furloughs at its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, only to [URL="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/06/noaa-cancels-planned-employee-furloughs/64106/"]cancel them[/URL] in May. The most significant example of agency furloughs has come from the Defense Department. The Pentagon originally planned to furlough all 750,000 civilians for 22 days. It then used reprogramming to [URL="http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/05/most-promised-furloughs-never-came-year/63329/"]trim that number to 11[/URL] days, and more recently -- [URL="http://www.defenseone.com/management/2013/08/how-pentagon-found-1-billion-cut-civilian-furloughs-just-six-days/68192/?oref=search_one%20billion%20furlough%20six"]through a series[/URL] of cost-cutting measures and inter-service transfer of funds -- reduced the days of unpaid leave to six. Several agencies have relied on “internal reviews” of their financial conditions, during which they discovered cost-cutting measures had made their situations less dire than originally anticipated. This, in turn, allowed them to cut required furlough days. [/QUOTE]
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