furlough

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

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

Employee furlough days, campus closures, job reductions and thousands of layoffs are among the looming cuts — actions the school board has largely postponed until July 1, 2027.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

When Billy got back from his furlough, there were orders for him to go overseas.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Back then, widespread layoffs and furloughs pushed some people to go into business for themselves, while others were emboldened to quit working for The Man during an office hiatus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

As none but re-enlisted men were allowed furloughs, the rest of the men contented themselves with passing their time in camp with various amusements, playing match games of base ball when not on duty.

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

Thousands of federal DHS employees have been furloughed, while others have been asked to keep working without pay until Congress passes a budget.

From Barron's ● Mar. 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

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

The captain protested, as the troops on board were all unarmed, being returned furloughed men and recruits; but it was no use, the order was imperative, and the captain headed his barge toward the shore.

From Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer A Drummer Boy from Maine by George T. Ulmer

And certainly, given the magnitude of what was about to happen, the idea of laying off or furloughing 110,000 people was not consistent with what some people would want their public image to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

Soon after General Lincoln published an order furloughing him to his plantation until able to resume active duty, but Charles Town was captured before Marion was able to return.

From A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade by William Dobein James