Right. My understanding is that the contractors are not being paid. Also, the National Guard troops whose drills have been cancelled this month are not being paid. I know that one for a fact. My son is one of those trying to figure out how all the bills are going to get paid this month.
So is my son.
The drill pay is probably lost as was the “furlough” workers were forced to undergo this summer.
However, what if a post-dated check were written for the lost drills, also. The justification is that those troops told not to come to drill were also told that they’re still liable for muster.
That is correct, and if this goes on for a month or more, the small private company I work for will go out of business.
FYI, I just heard from my (small) company. They're going to allow us to go negative on our PTO up to 40 hours. So we can use up our earned PTO (vacation time), then after that's all gone, go negative (i.e., earn it back over the upcoming months). After that, it's LWOP and applying for unemployment.
I'm not complaining, just informing.