EEOC Rescinds Single-Day Furlough Plan After Gathering Savings

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has rescinded its plan for a one-day, all-staff furlough at the end of August amid a federal funding shortfall.

EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows notified employees in a July memo that the civil rights agency was preparing for a furlough due to the stagnant funding from Congress for the current fiscal year and the “well-deserved but unfunded” 5.2% pay raise for federal workers mandated by an executive order signed by President Joe Biden last year.

But Burrows announced in a statement Tuesday that “the agency has accrued sufficient savings to eliminate the need for a ...