Normally, Republicans would celebrate the fact that federal workers showed up at their office. But the employees who came to the Labor Department's Boston office last week weren't there to work -- they were there, in person, to protest having to show up for in-person work.
Unattended workstations fill the Teleworks USA job site in Beattyville, Ky., on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The center is left dormant because of COVID-19 health concerns. ** FILE **Normally, Republicans would celebrate the fact that federal workers showed up at their office.
Telework has become a major battleground between the administration and federal workers, with the White House ordering agencies to get their employees back to offices and the federal labor unions resisting. OPM spokesman Viet Tran confirmed that 2019 was the latest work but declined to answer questions about why the Biden administration has not produced any updates.
The Trump administration, in its final report, said it had cut official time by more than 25%. But without any updates, it’s not clear what’s happened under President Biden.
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