Dive Summary:
- In an address to the House Agriculture Subcommittee, Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary of Food Safety, laid out the exact schedule of the meat inspector furlough.
- Inspectors and the rest of the agency's 9,212 employees will be forced not to work on 11 days from July to September.
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Total cuts are expected to hit $52.8 million, or about 5% of the agencies budget. There will be no meat produced in the U.S. on those 11 days of furlough.
From the article:
11 furlough days, scheduled from July to Sept. 20, will be for no more than one day a week and no more than two days per pay period.
FSIS has decided the fairest plan for the nation’s meat industry is a uniform national schedule. FSIS will likely take a total cut of $52.8 million or 5 percent of its budget.
Furloughs will be required of all 9,212 employees of the FSIS, including 8,136 meat inspectors and others on the front line such as lab technicians
