Thousands of state government and community college employees in Washington have overwhelmingly ratified a new one-year contract that would secure raises they lost out on in July. Nearly 5,300 members ...

The Internal Revenue Service is finally moving most of its employees from uncertainty to a paycheck, with the bulk of shutdown back wages scheduled to land in workers' accounts this week. After weeks ...

Interestingly enough, it was President Donald Trump who signed a law in 2019 that guaranteed retroactive pay after a shutdown. It has been a longstanding policy that federal furloughed employees will ...

The nonprofit World Central Kitchen, shown here in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 27, distributed free meals prepared by local restaurants to federal employees affected by the government shutdown. With the ...

A new White House memo argues back pay is not guaranteed for furloughed federal workers once the government shutdown ends, but critics say that directly contradicts federal law. A new White House memo ...

This story has been updated at 4:50 p.m. ET. The Internal Revenue Service on Friday afternoon told employees that "the majority" of outstanding backpay due to furloughed and excepted employees ...

Hundreds of ex-NYC City Council staffers are about to get coal in their stockings, as the legislative body is demanding they ...

President Trump has threatened to deny back pay to some furloughed workers. President Donald Trump this week indicated that the federal government may deny back pay to some employees furloughed amid a ...

President Donald Trump's administration warned on Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been a long-standing policy for some 750,000 ...

Members of the Washington Public Employees Association have ratified a new one-year contract that would secure raises they lost out on in July if funded by state lawmakers in the 2026 legislative ...