DoD furloughs to begin July 8
About 2,100 civilian employees of the Department of Defense in Maine will begin on July 8 taking one furlough day weekly for 11 weeks.
The Bangor Daily News reported the affected workers will include around 621 civilian employees of the U.S. Army, 600 at the Defense Department's Defense Finance and Accounting Service office in Limestone, 533 civilian technicians at the Maine Army and Air National Guard and around 200 employees of the Navy's Supervisor of Shipbuilding office in Bath, which oversees construction of Navy Warships at Bath Iron Works.
Nationally, the furloughs will be in effect for around 800,000 civilian Defense Department employees.
Some, but not all, of the workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery will avoid furloughs because their positions have been deemed "critical" and the 11-day furlough schedule stands to hamper their work.
A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said the furloughs amount to around $7 million in foregone income for the civilian Defense Department employees nationally.
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