18K state employees alerted to possible government shutdown

Don’t show up to work on July 1 if lawmakers haven’t passed a budget– those were the instructions sent out Tuesday to thousands of state employees.
The Department of Administration is preparing to send out 18,000 layoff notices, known as pink slips, Thursday, according to a Grace Jang, a spokesperson for Governor Bill Walker.
Jang says the department wanted to give state employees a “heads up” Tuesday to check their mailboxes for the notifications later this week.
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