Antideficiency Act makes it a federal crime for a furloughed employee to work during a partial government shutdown. Federal officers and employees who ‘knowingly and willfully’ violate provisions of the law can be fined up to $5,000 or imprisoned for up to two years or both. In 2009, 113,946 federal employees worked remotely, an increase of 11,046 or 11 percent, from 2008. The government doesn’t have figures on the number of government workers who teleworked in 1995, when the last shutdown occurred.”]
Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/blogs/worker-dedication-could-be-criminal-p-923