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Snow falls on the White House — Snow falls on the White House, Monday, January 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Oliver Contreras)

Workforce

Federal offices in DC region open on time on Wednesday

The Office of Personnel Management says employees can take unscheduled leave or telework on Wednesday.

Workforce Rights/Governance

OPM delivers final rule on paid administrative leave, 8 years after law was passed

Workforce

DC area feds must leave the office by 3 p.m. as storm approaches

Agency Oversight

OPM hasn’t finalized regulations for Administrative Leave Act, 6 years after Congress enacted it

Workforce

Feds to report to the office 2 hours late on Dec. 15

Workforce

Federal employees have more paid time off from OPM to get COVID-19 booster shots

Workforce

DC-area federal offices closed Thursday due to winter storm

Snow covers the ground at the White House, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Workforce

No snow days for teleworkers during the pandemic, OPM reminds feds

FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. The Trump administration has quietly shut down the nation's asylum system for the first time in decades amid coronavirus concerns, largely because holding people in custody is considered too dangerous. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Workforce

Officers urge CBP to reinstate weather and safety leave schedules during pandemic

Jerrold Nadler, Carolyn Maloney

Workforce

House Democrats propose health insurance flexibilities for feds during coronavirus

IT modernization

Unions

Unions raise coronavirus safety concerns over frontline CBP, VA employees

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Workforce

Explainer What to know about evacuation payment authority during the coronavirus

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Federal Report

What's taking agencies so long to order telework during the coronavirus pandemic?

IRS telework coronavirus

Workforce

Empowered with new flexibilities, IRS managers hesitant to act on telework guidance

telework, coronavirus

Workforce

Federal agencies in DC open but with 'maximum telework' flexibilities, OMB says

A woman uses hand sanitizer after voting in the presidential primary election at the the Summit View Church of the Nazarene Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. The polling place served two precincts as voters who were scheduled to vote at a nearby senior living facility were directed to vote at the church after the facility backed out due to coronavirus concerns. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Workforce

Agencies should expand telework for employees at 'higher risk' for coronavirus, OMB says

President Donald Trump holds a photograph of coronavirus as Dr. Steve Monroe,right, with CDC speaks to members of the press at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday, March 6, 2020. President Trump's trip to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, briefly scuttled Friday because of unfounded fears that someone there had contracted the coronavirus, was back on, giving the president another chance to calm growing alarm about the spread of the virus in America. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Workforce

OPM offers up more telework guidance amid growing coronavirus concerns