Social Security Administration
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Agencies have offered mixed messages about telework and the flexibilities their employees have in balancing the coronavirus pandemic, childcare duties and family medical concerns — and their work and services to the public.
March 18, 2020 -
Agencies have 48 hours to adopt an "aggressive posture" aimed at continuing critical government functions and preventing the spread of the coronavirus, the Trump administration said Tuesday night.
March 18, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management can urge and encourage agencies to expand flexibilities, enter into ad-hoc agreements and use unscheduled telework during the coronavirus pandemic, but it doesn't have the authority to do much else.
March 16, 2020 -
The Social Security Administration will revert to pre-March telework schedules for some employees. It will set up a "work at home quarantine" option for SSA employees who must quarantine or those whose children are home due to a coronavirus-related school closure.
March 13, 2020 -
Spreading crisis feels like a test for everybody, and feds, like all people, worry about the basics.
March 13, 2020 -
The two largest federal employee unions said Thursday steps to protect the federal workforce from the rapid spread of the coronavirus were falling short.
March 12, 2020 -
Whoever said timing is everything sure knew what she was talking about. Take teleworking, please!
March 12, 2020 -
Other agencies, such as the Social Security Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, have loosened telework restrictions and announced unscheduled remote options for federal employees at regional offices in Seattle, Washington, and New York.
March 11, 2020 -
Stanford Law School law professor David Freeman Engstrom joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with what they found.
March 11, 2020 -
It took agencies an average of 98 days to hire new talent, according to the most recent data available from 2018.
March 09, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, members of Congress are taking different approaches to make sure agency telework policies remain unhindered.
March 06, 2020 -
New telework schedules and policies went into effect for employees at the Social Security Administration this week. But the agency shows no signs of easing those policies amid growing concern over the spread of coronavirus.
March 05, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt says BLM issued 173 relocation notices to employees, and about 80 accepted the move to Colorado.
March 05, 2020 -
Corona virus should make SSA management get over its telework allergy
March 04, 2020 -
Lobotomizing of federal telework programs could be happening for a couple of reasons but the coronavirus is presenting a new test of that trend.
March 03, 2020