FAA Workers Will Not Get Back Pay

Federal Aviation Administration workers furloughed this summer will not receive back pay under draft legislation of a stopgap transportation funding bill, GovExec reports. The latest version of the FAA reauthorization bill was modified over the weekend to remove the pay provision and combines extensions of spending authority for the FAA and for surface transportation programs. Otherwise, FAA funding runs out Thursday. The other programs can operate until September 30. Some 4,000 workers were furloughed for two weeks when the last of a string of FAA reauthorizations expired in July. The FAA needs Congressional say-so in order to pay its workers for lost time.