furlough
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The district plan also includes unpaid furlough days for workers, but employees unions so far are not going along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Without furlough days, “how would we offset that? What other reduction would we make?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The horses get five weeks of furlough every year, 24/7 attention at the stables, regular veterinary care and a day off whenever temperatures exceed 90 degrees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He guided the company through the pandemic and made a then-prescient call to not furlough employees during the earliest days of Covid, helping restaurants to recover more quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
When Billy got back from his furlough, there were orders for him to go overseas.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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In addition to thousands of layoffs, school employees would face seven days of unpaid furloughs and have to begin contributing to their monthly health insurance premiums.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Further strains resulting from furloughs would compound the issues, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026
Worker furloughs, increased worker payments for healthcare, and other options could start to make a dent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Wright said in an interview last week that the US' nuclear stockpile would remain secure, but said the furloughs would hamper efforts to modernise older weapons in the stockpile.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
Any soldier that would re-enlist for three years would receive three hundred dollars bounty and thirty-five days furlough; all other furloughs were stopped.
From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill
When the Covid pandemic emptied hotels in 2020, the properties furloughed 90% of their workers.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
The company furloughed the majority of its employees, shuttered its operations and filed for bankruptcy the following month, according to the indictment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
The 44-year-old had been unable to find other work after getting furloughed and her husband, also a government contractor, was hunting for a second job to pay the bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Jerry furloughed all his employees and shut down for three months, until the theater was allowed to reopen with strict social distancing rules in place.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
She carried gold and precious stones—and more important yet, women being furloughed home after forced labor in the mines of Soviet Umbriel.
From The Peacemaker by Alfred Coppel
After a 50% sale of the company to Fiat in 1969, Ferrari was losing money and furloughing workers due to a misguided strategy of overproduction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Even if there is a shutdown, Marcus expects that most tax-return processing will continue and that the IRS will avoid furloughing workers.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
It also recently announced that it would be furloughing 270 pilots and downgrading around 140 captains to first officers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
Ford said Wednesday it was laying off another 400 workers in Michigan starting Thursday because of the strike after previously furloughing 930 workers, and Stellantis 370 workers in Ohio and Indiana because of the strike.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2023
The Resolutions on the Journal, instructing the ministers in Europe to remonstrate against the carrying off the negroes—also those for furloughing the troops—passed unanimously. p.
From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
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