Furlough 2024. The furlough scheme was the centrepiece of chancellor rishi sunak's unprecedented intervention in the economy, designed to stave off a wave of job losses as the country closed down in the face. A partial government shutdown come early saturday morning could see roughly 100,000 federal workers employed at the departments of agriculture, energy, housing and urban development, veterans.

February 28, 2024 7:01 pm. President biden signed a $1.2 trillion funding package that the senate approved in the early hours saturday morning to prevent a partial government shutdown.