Cloud & Virtualization

Senate Bill Would Permit Remote Work for All Eligible Federal Employees through the Pandemic

NextGov: As pressure mounts for some federal agency employees to return to their offices after months of adjusting to pandemic-prompted stay-home orders, three senators put forth bipartisan legislation to permit full-time telework for public-sector personnel throughout the COVID-19 public health emergency.

The Pandemic Federal Telework Act, introduced Monday by Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., seeks to set a default for maximum telework for agency employees until the pandemic ceases to persist (with some flexibility around work that can’t be completed remotely), enable use of the Technology Modernization Fund for tech-driven efforts to facilitate telework—and more.

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