Federal workers placed on a mandatory furlough and in a non-pay status can file for unemployment benefits. Not so for 'essential' workers.
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers found themselves furloughed or working without pay when they woke up Wednesday morning, after government funding lapsed overnight. The government shutdown ...
Furloughed federal workers are entitled to back pay by law, but contractors are not. Here's who gets paid and who doesn't.