IRS employees voluntarily returning to work this week are being given disposable face masks, and the agency is taking other precautions as it attempts to return to more normal service levels, said two organizations representing workers and managers
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IRS officials told the National Treasury Employees Union the agency “had obtained quantities of disposable masks for each location so any employee without a mask was provided one by the agency,” said Tony Reardon, the union’s national president, in a statement on Tuesday.The IRS hasn't responded to inquiries from POLITICO about how many workers have returned; the NTEU and the Professional Managers Association, which represents agency management, didn't provide numbers either.
When the IRS asked last week for thousands of workers to voluntarily return to 10 locations, it said the agency might not be able to obtain personal protective equipment, or PPE, for all of them. It said they would be required to bring face coverings from home. Since then, the IRS has obtained three-ply surgical masks, disinfectant and hand sanitizer for employees returning to work, according to the PMA.Unemployed Americans will lose a federal safety net long before the economy fully recovers —
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