BLOOMBERG NEWSThe IRS has announced that employees will open tax season on time - and issue tax refunds - despite a government shutdown. The lawsuit alleges that the FLSA guarantees on-time payment of any minimum wage and overtime wages earned for covered employees. The government has been responsible for paying liquidated damages before for failure to timely pay FLSA wages during a government shutdown as determined in Martin v. United States, 130 Fed. The number of employees heading back to work without pay is about to grow. Currently, about 380,000 federal employees are furloughed, while 420,000 are working without pay due to the shutdown.

Source: Forbes January 08, 2019 02:03 UTC