More federal employees who have been working since the start of the government shutdown are being sent home as their agencies ...

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, or GEFTA, guarantees back pay for employees furloughed or required to work unpaid ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told ABC News Live's Linsey Davis that federal workers will get back pay once the ...

President Donald Trump is considering not giving back pay to all federal employees once the government shutdown ends, ...

An IRS employee told Federal News Network that earlier guidance emailed to employees on Wednesday was automatically deleted ...

On Wednesday, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and others demanded the administration to follow law on back ...

The IRS walked back previous guidance indicating furloughed employees would receive back pay during the government shutdown Thursday, writing that an agency under the president would provide ...

While IRS is threatening furloughed employees with making them go without back pay, it has told exempted employees—those who ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined a band of Democrats in signing a Wednesday letter sent to White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought urging him to provide back ...

Back pay for furloughed workers has been a point of contention throughout the eight-day government shutdown, despite the fact ...

Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district with one of the largest concentrations of federal employees and contractors in the U.S. House, today responded to reports that ...

A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees that federal employees get paid ...