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How does the length of a shutdown furlough affect the procedures that are used to implement the furlough of employees? A. The length of a shutdown furlough does not affect the procedures that are used. For most employees, shutdown furloughs lasting 30 calendar days or less (22 workdays) are covered by OPM regulations under 5 CFR part 752, adverse action procedures. Shutdown furloughs lasting 30 calendar days or less (22 workdays) for career appointees in the Senior Executive Service (except reemployed annuitants) are covered under 5 CFR part 359, subpart H. See Question P.6a. below regarding noncareer, limited term, or limited emergency appointees in the SES and reemployed annuitants holding career appointments. Shutdown furloughs lasting more than 30 calendar days (22 workdays) are also covered by OPM regulations under 5 CFR part 752, adverse action procedures or 5 CFR part 359, subpart H, as applicable. When the shutdown furlough goes beyond 30 days, agencies should treat it as a second shutdown furlough and issue another adverse action or furlough notice. NOTE: Reductions in force (RIF) furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements are not applicable to emergency shutdown furloughs because the ultimate duration of an emergency shutdown furlough is unknown at the outset and is dependent entirely on Congressional action, rather than agency action. The RIF furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements, on the other hand, contemplate planned, foreseeable, money-saving furloughs that, at the outset, are planned to exceed 30 days.See first guidance document- https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/furlough-guidance/#url=Shutdown-Furlough...and this for affected employees. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-752/subpart-B
It seems there are two ways you can look at this.1. This could be an opportunity to clean house of many career bureaucrats.Or2. This could cause a huge backlash by furloughed workers afraid to lose their jobs.