In 2011 I and everybody else where I worked took a 20% pay cut, all bonuses eliminated, and 2 others had to be laid off. Those that stayed didn’t get to take that one day off. But that was solved the next year for me with a 100% reduction in work days and a 100% cut in pay, i.e. layoff, along with three others from the small firm I was working for.
Now having said that, my daughter works for the DoD, and and is getting a 20% cut in pay and furlough. But she was on a 4 day work week anyway, does she only work 3 days now and then 2 hours on her fourth day?
she should be getting a briefing on how her furlough will be handled
If she is working 4 10-hour days then I imagine her hours will be cut to 7.5 hours a day (30 hour week) to match her reduced pay. At least she is not paying $4 a gallon gas to commute
Good luck to her!
My daughter also works for DoD. As of yesterday, they still don’t know she’ll be furloughed. She’s a GS-13, single and after three deployments to Afghanistan , she has a fair amount put away. She will probably lose ten percent of her pay. One of her co-workers is a GS-12, a single mom and is going to be hit hard by the furlough.