By Andrea Shalal and Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing that federal employees idled by the government shutdown would not automatically get retroactive pay when the standoff ends, according to an internal document described to Reuters on Tuesday.

If adopted as official policy, that could threaten back pay for up to 700,000 furloughed scientists, administrators and other civil servants who have been ordered not to work since the shutdown began on October 1.

That would counteract guidance by Trump’s own personnel office, which says a 2019 law signed by Trump guarantees back pay to all employees as soon as possible after a shutdown ends, whether they were furloughed or required to stay on the job. It also threatens to upend past pr

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