{"id":14264,"date":"2025-10-10T01:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/irs-pulls-back-on-promise-of-back-pay-for-idled-workers-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:21:28","slug":"irs-pulls-back-on-promise-of-back-pay-for-idled-workers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/irs-pulls-back-on-promise-of-back-pay-for-idled-workers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS pulls back on promise of back pay for idled workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS is walking back guidance on back pay for staffers a day after the agency furloughed almost half its employees and suggested they would receive retroactive paychecks, according to an email obtained by Blue Light News. &ldquo;An earlier memo circulated on furlough guidance incorrectly stated the nature of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 as it relates to compensation for non-pay and non-duty status,&rdquo; the email to employees&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/09\/congress\/irs-pulls-back-on-promise-of-backpay-for-idled-workers-00600022\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS is walking back guidance on back pay for staffers a day after the agency furloughed almost half its employees and suggested they would receive retroactive paychecks, according to an email obtained by Blue Light News. &ldquo;An earlier memo circulated on furlough guidance incorrectly stated the nature of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}