The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued new guidance to the intelligence community about how to treat contractors who are unable to work remotely amid the coronavirus pandemic
.encourages intelligence agencies to make use of Section 3610 of the CARES Act, the emergency coronavirus rescue bill signed into law by President Donald Trump late last month. The Act authorizes agencies to modify contracts so that more contractors can stay home in a “ready state” and be reimbursed if they were unable to work because of the pandemic.
“There was concern about inconsistent implementation about how to handle this trusted workforce,” one top executive at a major U.S. intelligence contractor told POLITICO last week. “So there’s been a lot of calls from the industry to elevate some of this guidance to establish some guidelines for consistency.”
Like the rest of the federal workforce, the intelligence community has been implementing a variety of measures to protect its staff from infection, including staggered shifts and more flexible work schedules. But unlike most government agencies, the sensitive nature of the intelligence community’s work demands some unique considerations.
Some contractors had complained of unsafe working conditions stemming from a lack of consistent guidance across the intelligence community. One IC contractor told POLITICO that “to achieve social distancing on site, half of all contractors have been kicked out of their primary workspaces and told they could work at their company offices,” which in some cases had led to overcrowding and an inability to properly socially distance.
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