{"id":208765,"date":"2013-07-02T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123354703"},"modified":"2013-07-02T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:15:00","slug":"civilian-furloughs-begin-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=208765","title":{"rendered":"Civilian furloughs begin Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Defense appropriated fund civilian employees begin a government-mandated furlough beginning Monday for up to 11 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Civilian employees will have one furlough day without pay each week for 11 weeks through the end of the fiscal year between July 8 and Sept. 30. &#160;A furlough of one eight-hour day per week equates to a 20 percent reduction in pay over the furlough period for impacted civilian employees, for those who normally work 40 hours per week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have made this decision very reluctantly, because I know that the furloughs will disrupt lives and impact DOD operations,&#8221; Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in his directive to the services.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123354703\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Defense appropriated fund civilian employees begin a government-mandated furlough beginning Monday for up to 11 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Civilian employees will have one furlough day without pay each week for 11 weeks through the end of the fiscal year &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}