Pentagon ends furloughs after next week, but warns they could return
Thousands of workers at Fort George G. Meade and the Naval Academy received welcome news Tuesday when the Department of Defense cut furlough days for civilian workers from 11 to six.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said in a statement that the Pentagon found ways to deal with required sequester cuts without imposing as many furlough days as originally expected.
For many of the 27,820
civilian federal employees at Fort Meade and another 1,500 at the
academy, that means furloughs will end after next week. The forced
unpaid holidays began July 8 and were scheduled to last through late
September.
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