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That's not accurate. They passed a law after the last shutdown guaranteeing backpay to all furloughed employees.
So I should clarify what I meant.... A ton of the workers in the Federal Government are contractors like the people who run the food services, laundry services, and janitor services in the House and Senate. Those workers, which number in the hundreds of thousands, are not entitled to backpay.
The Federal Government itself does employee a ton of people but the majority of it it is done via Federal Contractors who do not historically receive backpay.
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Good point
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For instance the National Labs almost everyone at them are contractors. Tons of people who work in the Smithsonian's, Government buildings, even places like Military Bases..... for the most part people passing them assume the are Federal Employees and most of them say they are since it is easier to say I work for say the DOE or DOD rather than XYZ company who has a contract with DOE or DOD.
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So those aren't federal employees, they're private sector employees who just happen to work for a company that bilks the gov as a customer
That's a contractual dispute between those companies and the gov
If there's a big kerfuffle over this we'll surely get some spice over the WFA laundered through these contracts
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