Border Agency Cancels Weather and Safety Leave for Some Employees, Angering Union and Lawmakers

Government Executive: Democratic lawmakers and a federal employee union are calling on U.S. Customs and Border Protection to restore temporary workplace flexibilities aimed at keeping employees at the border and ports of entry healthy during the coronavirus pandemic.

In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, the agency offered employees a program where the use of weather and safety leave gave CBP officers flexibility to reduce their exposure to travelers who potentially could be carrying the coronavirus.

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