Congressional Research Employees Association

Lists of First and Second Round of Teleworkers Available
On Tuesday, May 18, the CRS Office of Workforce Management and Development (WRK) forwarded to the Office of Information Management and Technology (IMT) the names of the first cohort of CRS employees that have been approved for telework. You can see your order in the queue by looking at the [...]

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CREA and CRS management met last week to discuss telework implementation issues that employees have brought to CREA’s attention since the announcement of the CRS Telework Progam. The Questions and Answers below reflect the consensus reached by CREA and CRS management on those issues.
Q. Why do employees who are already approved to work from home [...]

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As you’ve probably heard, on March 26 your CREA negotiation team reached an agreement with CRS on our new telework policy. The team worked hard to make the final agreement flexible for staff and won several crucial improvements.
If CRS hadn’t been required to negotiate with CREA, we would now be governed by the policy [...]

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Today, CREA and CRS management signed an agreement on telework (Telework Agreement).  Negotiations began in October and concluded yesterday.
Starting around the first of May, all bargaining unit employees, including those on a compressed work schedule, may request to telework up to one day per week. Six months later, a one-year pilot program will be established [...]

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On January 19, 2010, the Director announced a telework program for non-bargaining-unit, non-supervisory staff. These are employees not covered by CREA’s contract.
This program is the same as the program proposed to CREA in October. Then and now, CREA considers the program more restrictive than necessary. Our bargaining team is still negotiating to develop a better [...]

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