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furlough

[fur-loh] / ˈfɜr loʊ /


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You never know if there will be another furlough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Production at the business, which employs about 1,300 people, was paused several months ago, with staff put on furlough on reduced wages.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

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

“Well, if you’re on furlough you must know when you have to be back.”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

There are no plans for layoffs or furloughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The county has limited authority over the program because decisions about educational furloughs are made by the courts, according to Wagner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Further strains resulting from furloughs would compound the issues, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

Some park employees said the furloughs have compounded stressors from firings, retirements and buyouts over the last year or so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

Cold weather had now commenced and rainy days were frequent; furloughs were granted the men from ten to twenty days, large numbers visiting their homes.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill

Economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics were not able to collect all the usual price data in October and November because they were furloughed and unable to work.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 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

Things got worse in 2020, when most Imagineers were furloughed because there was so little work to do during the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 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

Gen. Wilcox is organizing an impromptu brigade here, formed of the furloughed officers and men found everywhere in the streets and at the hotels.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

He later took aim at bloated government monopolies posing as state companies, furloughing tens of millions and courting foreign investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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

“The minute you tell them, ‘no money,’ even if it’s for a few days or a few weeks, they probably need to think about closing their doors temporarily and furloughing employees.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 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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