Committee passes bill requiring employee safety plans prior to reopening 6 hours ago Federal agencies would be required to communicate comprehensive plans to all employees within 60 days of the bill s passage. (JaruekChairak/Getty Images) Federal agencies would be required to publish comprehensive employee safety plans prior to instituting return-to-work efforts under legislation reported favorably by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee May 13. The bill, named the Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act after a food service worker at a childcare facility at Quantico that died of COVID-19, would give agencies 60 days to publish a plan for how they intend to address personal protective equipment, testing, contract tracing and other safety procedures for any of their covered worksites.
Published on May 13, 2021 - By Jamie Orr
Government agencies are doubling down on remote work for the long term, even after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions are lifted.
Large firms like Google are backtracking on plans to have workers return to their offices, and are implementing permanent flexible work options.
Likewise, government agencies are doubling down on remote work for the long term, even after COVID-19 pandemic restrictions are lifted.
Their reasoning is that remote work offers huge savings for taxpayers as well as reduced carbon emissions and greater resiliency, in the case of future emergency office shutdowns.
Last week, Google continued to backtrack on its initially strict plan to have workers return to their offices by this September.
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Federal Drive with Tom Temin heard from a highly pro-union academic, an anti-union right-to-work advocate, and a longtime federal executive who’s of mixed views. Today we heard from the president of one of the major unions itself, the National Treasury Employees Union’s Tony Reardon.
Interview transcript:
Tom Temin: Tony, good to have you on.
Tony Reardon: Thank you, Tom, it is great to be with you.
Tom Temin: And I imagine that you feel that federal unions definitely have a role here in the good operation of the public’s business. So I don’t think I have to answer that question for you. But as a longtime union employee, and head of one of the big ones, what do you think unions do best with respect to the discharge of the public’s business through federal agencies?
May 4, 2021
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