> Are people who showed up at work will get paid for those past weeks? Employees of the federal government will get back pay, at least according to the NYT and

> Are people who showed up at work will get paid for those past weeks? Employees of the federal government will get back pay, at least according to the NYT and others. However, they aren’t currently eligible to collect any sort of unemployment (because they’re technically “working”), and contractors who work with the government aren’t guaranteed back pay.