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Washington Post: Government shutdown leads hundreds of IRS employees to skip work -- which could delay tax refunds

Source: cnn.com - Jan 23, 2019

Washington (CNN)Hundreds of Internal Revenue Service workers dealing with financial hardship were given permission to miss work during the partial government shutdown, which could slow the federal government's ability to process taxpayer refunds, according to The Washington Post.
Union leaders told the newspaper they are expecting the absences to increase as part of a coordinated protest.
Last week, the Trump administration called back about 36,000 federal employees ahead of the tax filing season, bringing the total number of IRS employees working during the shutdown to about 57% of the workforce.

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