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72-hour work schedule starts
Palacios, OAG, Finance, OMB still reviewing budget revision bill
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Posted on Apr 24 2023
Starting today, Monday, the 72-hour work schedule of some Executive Branch employees will start and last until Sept. 30, 2023—the end of fiscal year 2023.
The Office of the Governor confirmed that the austerity measure will push through even if Gov. Arnold I. Palacios has yet to sign into law a bill to revise the budget and appropriations law for the government’s operations for fiscal year 2023.
Under Palacios’ directive, Executive Branch departments, offices, and activities will shut down every other Monday following today, April 24.
Those affected are employees who are under the Executive Branch whose personnel costs were funded in whole or in part by federal American Rescue Plan Act funds or local revenues. The cut does not affect emergency workers or those involved in healthcare, public safety, and emergency responders.
The reduction in work hours does not apply to federally-funded programs and functions of the government, or to CNMI government employees who are funded 100% by other federal funding sources, whose federally funded salaries require a local match.
As for the budget revision bill, the Office of the Governor said yesterday that the legislation is being still reviewed by Palacios, the Office of the Attorney General, Department of Finance, and the Office of Management and Budget.
The Legislature passed last Wednesday during separate emergency sessions a bill to revise the budget and appropriations law for fiscal year 2023.
