OPM director Kiran Abuja defended federal employees’ expanded use of telework in a Congressional hearing last week and said that the government needs to make sure it keeps offering work-from-home options to keep the federal workforce happy.
Legislation in Congress would cut federal employees’ telework benefits. What options do federal employees have if they want to remain on expanded telework?
Mixed messages and a lack of answers from the Biden administration on the use of telework for federal employees have left many lawmakers and DC officials wondering when or if in-person work will return to the city and what is to become of the empty buildings there.
The House has passed legislation that would slash telework benefits for federal employees.
In what is no doubt a rarity, a Democratic mayor has sided with House Republicans in opposing the Biden administration’s liberal telework policies for federal employees because of the economic toll they are inflicting on Washington, DC.
Legislation has been introduced to prevent the Biden administration from making pandemic era telework policies permanent.
OPM has issued new 2022 dismissal and closure procedures for federal employees heading into the winter season.
A Defense Department employee who refused to go into the office and refused to telework was removed for Absence Without Leave (AWOL).
Legislation has been reintroduced to permanently expand telework in the federal government.
Recently introduced legislation would put the brakes on the Biden administration’s effort to permanently expand telework for federal employees.
