Federal workers may wait 3 days or more for shutdown back pay: Union

Published January 25, 2019 11:42pm ET



President Trump is preparing to sign legislation to end the 35-day partial government shutdown, but the 800,000 federal workers who missed paychecks won’t get paid immediately.

Under a best-case scenario, back pay will be processed under a “special out-of-cycle run,” meaning a special processing period, said Tim Kauffman, a spokesman for the American Federation of Government Employees, a large union representing federal workers.

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