“The Labor Department announced on Monday that it will be awarding almost $100 million in grant funding to states to prevent layoffs by allowing businesses to pay employees as part-time workers and the federal government will pick up the tab for the cost of a full-time paycheck. The ‘work-sharing’ program was passed as part of a Republican-led bill in the House, H.R. 3630.”
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