CBP Furlough Notices Would Come in March Following Sequestration, Says NTEU
CBP will begin sending out agency-wide furlough notices of up to two weeks in mid-March if the planned spending cuts of sequestration take effect March 1, said the National Treasury Employees Union. CBP told NTEU it will need to "make $754 million in cuts from March 1 through the Sept. 30 end of the current fiscal year," said NTEU in a press release.
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Such cuts "will have devastating impacts on CBP’s dual missions of securing our borders and facilitating trade and travel,” said NTEU President Colleen Kelley. In addition to potential furloughs, the cuts include reductions in travel, training and overtime; an agency-wide hiring freeze, adjustments to the composition of work units that threaten to sharply increase wait times at border entry points and a substantial loss of revenue from reduced travel and slowed commercial traffic, said the NTEU.
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