{"id":11178,"date":"2018-12-24T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/12\/24\/how-the-shutdown-could-have-long-term-implications-for-feds\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:32:41","slug":"how-the-shutdown-could-have-long-term-implications-for-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2018\/12\/24\/how-the-shutdown-could-have-long-term-implications-for-feds\/","title":{"rendered":"How the shutdown could have long-term implications for feds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Federal employees will likely continue to feel the impacts of the partial government shutdown<\/a> for weeks to come, even as the initial days of the shutdown occur over the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Doreen Greenwald, revenue officer at the Internal Revenue Service, paychecks for the pay period of Dec. 9 through Dec. 22, the majority of which consisted of normal, fully funded work, will arrive for feds on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that most feds, particularly those that work a typical Monday-Friday work schedule, would continue to experience normal pay for the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first pay period in January would start showing the shutdown hours,\u201d Greenwald said in a Dec. 24 National Treasury Employee Union press call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an NTEU survey of approximately 1,500 of its members, 85 percent of those employees are limiting their spending in advance of those missing or reduced paychecks in January. And 50 percent of those employees are having to cancel or change holiday plans because of the shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\t