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05-17-2013, 02:13 PM
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South Sound DOD employees still facing furloughs, but new plan calls for fewer unpaid
Thousands of Defense Department employees in Pierce and Thurston counties are still facing the likelihood of unpaid time off this summer, but not as much as the Pentagon initially proposed.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday released a plan requiring about 680,000 civilian employees across the country to take 11 furlough days through the end of September. The furloughs are scheduled to begin July 8 unless Congress allocates money to prevent the spending reduction, meaning workers will take off about one day a week for three months. That’s down from an initial Pentagon furlough proposal that would have mandated 22 … Read more » More... 
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