Yokohama furloughs workers days after reopening
Yokohama Tire Corporation has furloughed some of its employees at its West Point manufacturing plant until further notice, according to an internal email from the company obtained by The Dispatch Wednesday evening.
Automatic spending cuts coming in 2014
WASHINGTON — The first year of automatic, across-the-board budget cuts didn’t live up to the dire predictions from the Obama administration and others who warned
Pentagon: Most furloughed civilians ordered back
The Pentagon is ordering most of its approximately 400,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work.
Furloughs begin for Defense Department civilians
More than 650,000 civilian Defense Department workers will begin taking the first of their 11 unpaid days off next week, but the cut in salary they will see in the three months may pale compared to what officials worry could be larger scale layoffs next year.
CAFB confirms furloughs starting in July
Columbus Air Force Base officials have confirmed that furloughs for more than 470 of its civilian employees will take effect July 8 and continue through the remainder of the fiscal year.
State braces for Guard furloughs
Maj. Gen. Augustus L. Collins, the adjutant general of Mississippi, was to release details today of upcoming furloughs among more than 1,400 full-time National Guard employees across Mississippi.
DOD poised to trim furlough days, add exemptions
WASHINGTON — After weeks of debate and number-crunching, the Defense Department announced plans Tuesday to furlough about 680,000 of its civilian employees for 11 days
Controllers to return; flight delays sway Congress
Furloughed air traffic controllers will soon be heading back to work, ending a week of coast-to-coast flight delays that left thousands of travelers frustrated and furious.
Sequestration has had ‘very minimal effect’ on GTRA
Air traffic controller furloughs as a result of sequestration have had no effect on operations at Golden Triangle Regional Airport, Executive Director Mike Hainsey said Monday.
Hagel: Job not to cut heart out of Pentagon
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rejected the suggestion that President Barack Obama tapped him to “cut the heart out of the Pentagon,” pointedly reminding
Furloughs looming for CAFB
As furloughs loom for 800,000 of the nation’s government contract workers, one Columbus man is bracing himself for the financial hit.
Carmine Muscarella, a life coach at Columbus Air Force Base, said he expects the furlough notices to begin this week. For Muscarella and the other 472 contract workers employed through CAFB, that means a 20 percent reduction per pay period due to sequestration.
Pentagon notifies Congress of likely furloughs
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have to shorten the workweek for the “vast majority” of the Defense Department’s 800,000 civilian workers.