furlough
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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
Unified’s already adopted plan calls for more than 6,000 job reductions, slashing up to $500 million per year in extra services for schools with the greatest needs and seven unpaid furlough days for each worker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
There was major spending during the Covid pandemic for things like the furlough scheme which were announced outside of a Budget.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
But the first time she went on furlough to Berkeley, she had nearly had a stroke.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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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
The commonwealth is home to hundreds of thousands of federal employees, many of whom faced job losses or furloughs during the recent government shutdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Energy Secretary Chris Wright is expected to discuss the furloughs and shutdown during a news conference in Nevada on Monday.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
Regiments that at first were not up to standard, were in the course of the winter given their furloughs as they attained efficiency.
From A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry by Julian Wisner Hinkley
When the Covid pandemic emptied hotels in 2020, the properties furloughed 90% of their workers.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
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
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
General Badeau claims, besides, six thousand furloughed men and conscripts as joining the army between the 20th of April and the 4th of May.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
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
SSA initially kept only 4,780 employees to ensure benefit payments, furloughing 61,415 workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
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
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