Companies may furlough salaried employees without pay so long as they do not work at all during the furlough. Although hourly employees are paid only for the hours they work, salaried employees must be paid their full weekly salary for every week that they put in any work. So if an employee works on a Monday and is put on furlough the next day, they still need to be paid their full salary for that week. For this reason, salaried employees are likely to be asked not to come in at all during a furlough. Hourly employees can sometimes experience more limited furloughs, such as a worker being furloughed one day a week due to budget shortfalls.