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“The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the complexities of maintaining regular government operations while also protecting the health and safety of the employees who provide those services," Reardon wrote. "By far, the most successful safety protocol these last 16 months has been the federal government’s maximum telework posture, allowing tens of thousands of ...

Washington D.C. – The Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to abandon harmful workplace policies unilaterally enforced during the last administration and repair the relationship with its frontline workforce represented by the National Treasury Employees Union.  The joint announcement between NTEU and HHS ends four years of contentious legal ...

The 38-page document includes frequently-asked questions on telework, remote work, locality pay and other post-reentry issues. It reinforces previous guidance strongly encouraging agencies to expand telework based on experiences during the last 15 months. The deadline to submit office reentry and post-pandemic workforce plans to the White House passed last ...

However, the June 10 guidance from the administration represents a solid start to the long process of making sure there will be improvements in safety protocols at the workplace and favorable updates to employees’ work schedules and conditions. NTEU will work to ensure that agencies follow this guidance. In particular, the guidance makes clear that no major ...

Washington D.C. – Federal agencies would be required to publish specific safety plans for protecting the health of federal employees as office buildings reopen, according to legislation that now awaits a vote by the full House.  The Chai Suthammanont Remembrance Act (H.R. 978), which is endorsed by the National Treasury Employees Union, passed the House ...

Over the 20-minute interview, Reardon discussed how NTEU empowers federal employees and improves their everyday working lives. “Frontline workers have the best viewpoint for how to improve government services and their union helps them to be heard and makes it safe for them to express their viewpoints,” he said. “We need in this country, the best and ...

Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Crapo and members of the Committee, thank you for allowing NTEU to submit its thoughts on methods to improve service delivery at the Social Security Administration.  NTEU represents approximately 150,000 federal employees in 34 agencies including 1,900 attorneys and paralegals in the Social Security Administration’s Office of ...

Washington D.C. – The federal employees who handle appeals of Social Security disability claims would be better equipped to serve taxpayers if they had greater access to telework, rural broadband was expanded and the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness program was functioning properly, according to a statement NTEU submitted to Congress today.  The SSA ...

Washington D.C. – Expanded telework was the most common program federal employees cited when asked how their agency supported their well-being during the pandemic, according to the new Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results released today by the Office of Personnel Management.  Sixty-five percent of the employees who took the 2020 FEVS survey said expanded ...