CORRECTION: An earlier version of this report misstated the contents of an OMB report on telework. Lead Art: President Donald Trump signs an executive order during an inauguration parade at Capital One Arena in
The order, signed by Mr. Trump on his first day in office Monday, is consistent with a wish list submitted by Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy shortly after Mr. Trump's election. It seeks, among other things, to open to oil and gas drilling an area of the pristine Arctic National ...
" and arrange for federal employees to return to in-person work.The executive order leaves some room for negotiation, giving department and agency leaders the ability to make exemptions."Before the COVID pandemic, we had a federal telework policy, ...
VA has moved to swiftly implement many of President Trump’s controversial workforce changes, ending telework for non-union employees, placing dozens of employees who worked on diversity issueson administrative leaveand freezing hiring for a relatively small portion of the workf...
Seema Verma on Thursday with concerns that agency’s call center employees are in “grave danger” during the pandemic.“It is troubling that, despite universal uncertainty over how long this crisis will last, CMS does not outline a process for creating that telework infrastructure,” they wrote...
the department in September beganrehiring retireeson a part-time basis, and allowed those “reemployed annuitants” to telework. And just weeks before beginning to implement the relocation, officials offered todelay the firing dateof workers who declined to move in order to ensure statutorily requ...