COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio may have to furlough some state employees amid the federal government shutdown, the Department of Administrative Services warned Friday.

The Ohio Adjutant General's Department, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, the Ohio Department of Health, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and the Ohio Department of Public Safety were notified of the potential impacts.

The union contract requires agencies to make an announcement 14 days before funding could be interrupted and is informational only, according to the DAS.

Of the 9,000 employees who were notified on Friday, the DAS expects the number who may be subject to furlough to be less than half of that, adding that the passage of a continuing resolutio

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