The Defense department has already notified 800,000 civilian employees that they may be subject to temporary furloughs that would require them to take leaves without pay in the remaining seven months of the current budget year.
Department of Transportation officials said the temporary furlough without pay would primarily affect workers at the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
The Senate approved a House bill extending the Federal Aviation Administration's operating authority after a fight over a provision to eliminate $16.5 million in air service subsidies to rural airports led to a temporary furlough of some agency workers.
The process of trimming government budgets is slow and cumbersome, involving notifications to unions about temporary furloughs, reductions in overtime pay and cuts in grant financing to state and local programs.
Separation had to be more than 30 days to qualify in order to exclude temporary furloughs.
When determining the number of employees, be sure to include all employees on your payroll -- don't forget any employees on temporary layoff, leave of absence, or furlough.
Since the beginning of the year, the company has taken a number of cost-saving measures, including employee and executive pay cuts, mandatory furloughs and limits on temporary employees.
In 2013, roughly 850,000 federal workers received furloughs, meaning they were placed on temporary leave.
In the survey of households, workers who were furloughed during the entire week of Oct. 6-12 (the week that the survey asks respondents about) and therefore did not work at all will be classified as "unemployed, on temporary layoff".
Some are on temporary assignments.
