Transportation Secretary says air traffic controllers who stopped working before missing pay could face consequences

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday that air traffic controllers may be punished if they started calling in sick before missing pay during the government shutdown.

"My concern is, for those air traffic controllers who, before they missed a paycheck, and were in the shutdown, they decided on a continual basis not to show up for work," Duffy said at a news conference in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

"They don't know how long the shutdown was going to be, they hadn't missed a pay period, and they didn't come to work," he continued.

The transportation secretary said his department hasn't yet decided whether to take action against such controllers. He did not specify what consequences may be imposed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/transportation-secretary-says-air-traffic-065350613.html

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