Prepare To Be Furloughed, Panetta Tells Defense Department Workers -- Washington PostThe Defense Department on Wednesday told its nearly 800,000 civilian federal employees that should sequestration occur, it “will be forced to place the vast majority” of them on unpaid furloughs.
The memo from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is the latest in a long line of warnings from the Pentagon and other agencies about potential furloughs from automatic budget cutting set to hit March 1 unless a law delays or prevents that sequestration.
“In the event of sequestration we will do everything we can to be able to continue to perform our core mission of providing for the security of the United States, but there is no mistaking that the rigid nature of the cuts forced upon this department, and their scale, will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force,” the memo says.
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Pentagon: Furloughs for civilian workers if forced cuts go into effect -- CNN
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Panetta notifies Congress of Pentagon civilian furloughs -- Reuters
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