FAA To Get Back Pay

A new bill in the House would authorize back pay for furloughed FAA employees, GovExec reports. Republican Congressman Frank LoBiondo is expected to introduce the measure today. No retroactive pay was included for furloughed employees in the law passed last week extending the FAA's authorization through mid-September. That law did authorize retroactive pay and reimbursements for essential employees that worked through the shutdown including forty airport safety inspectors. The four thousand furloughed employees returned to work yesterday ending the two week partial shutdown.