The majority of employees at the nation’s four public shipyards are working without pay during the ongoing government shutdown, while approximately 2-4% of the workforce has been furloughed, a Navy official confirmed to Inside Defense . Due to the critical nature of their work maintaining the Navy’s fleet, most of the roughly 38,000 civilians employed at the government-run yards are exempt from furlough and required to continue working as the shutdown enters its 24th day. “The workforce at the four...
