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Re:Hubble telescope camera is broken and US government shutd... by ajross on Thursday January 10, 2019 @06:11PM (#18879409)
> All these workers (except potentially contractors) get backpay

Not automatically. Everyone just assumes that whatever funding bill eventually passes will include a backpay provision.

But in a legal sense, these jobs simply don't exist any more. No plan exists in law to pay these employees ever again.

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