A memo encouraging the approval of telework arrangements for people with religious reasonable accommodation requests comes as ...

Federal workers can hold prayer circles with members of the public and tell colleagues to rethink their religious beliefs, ...

The U S Office of Personnel Management OPM under Director Scott Kupor issued a memo this week directing federal agencies to ...

The guidance from the Office of Personnel Management builds on the administration’s efforts to bolster faith’s presence in the federal workforce.

According to a memo, federal workers may now seek permission to work from home or seek other changes for religious reasons.

Measures within CBAs that mandate minimum telework levels at agencies or ban the setting of maximum telework levels “are likely unlawful,” according to the memo. The memo is the latest step in OPM’s ...

In a memo Wednesday night, Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell gave agencies a 5 p.m. Friday deadline to revise their agencywide telework policy to reflect that employees are expected to “work ...

Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Charles Ezell called on agency leaders in a new memo to immediately change their telework policies to require federal employees to be in the office full ...

OPM highlights the fiscal benefits of telework. While challenging to quantify precisely, the report estimates at least $150 million in savings across government agencies in 2022.

OPM officials say that eventually this telework data could be used instead of the current methods of gathering data from agencies, but GAO says that OPM will need to implement the rest of the ...

At OPM, employees were notified of their telework eligibility status, which could be “fully eligible,” and not the number of days or hours for which they were eligible, Johnson said.