Feds like teleworking and want it to stick around, the National Treasury Employees Union says.
The union released results on Friday from a survey of 13,800 of its members in 33 departments and agencies that it conducted earlier this month, touting the safety role telework played during the pandemic by promoting social distancing. Maximum telework should forever be a go-to strategy during any type of public health emergency, because it allows government services to continue without endangering the employees, NTEU national president Tony Reardon said in a statement about the survey.
The union is continuing to pursue legislation on Capitol Hill to protect and expand teleworking policies and working to get telework friendly agreements with agencies, it says. NTEU represents about 150,000 federal employees across 34 agencies, most notably at the IRS.
The federal government is losing billions in unpaid taxes, in part due to racial disparities in the tax code
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Bill to Expand Paid Family Leave Benefits for Feds Introduced in Senate
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Government Still Using Recalled Vehicles
Consumer groups and federal employee unions are asking the government to stop using and re-selling vehicles with unrepaired safety recalls.
Apr 16th, 2021
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DETROIT (AP) More than a dozen consumer groups and three federal employee unions are asking the U.S. government to stop using vehicles in its fleet with unrepaired safety recalls.
The group also says the General Services Administration is selling vehicles to the public without the repairs being made, including those with potentially dangerous Takata air bags and faulty General Motors ignition switches. This practice endangers the lives of tens of thousands of federal employees and all who share the roadway environment with them, the groups wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden.
Biden administration issues first government-wide guidance about how to test federal employees for coronavirus
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