Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Customs and Border workers won’t be forced to take furloughs this year as originally feared, Government Executive reports.
CBP employees, who initially faced 14 furlough days in fiscal 2013, dodged the forced days off through appropriations approved by Congress.
It was good news for the more than 20,000 CBP workers who feared a cut in pay.
But union leaders cautioned against early celebrations.
“Sequestration, which is the underpinning for all manner of problems for federal agencies, is scheduled to continue until 2021,” Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in a statement. “And even with the decision not to furlough employees, CBP remains particularly hard-hit by the sequester.”
