Congressional Research Employees Association

 
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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In light of the recent removal of Morris Davis as Assistant Director of FDT, CREA has reissued and revised its position statement on outside writing. Please see CREA on Outside Writing.

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CREA and CRS management are negotiating a congressionally mandated telework policy. In its FY2010 CRS appropriation, the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch included language instructing the Director to “adopt and implement…a telework program modeled on the Library’s existing system.” The Subcommittee expected that CRS should have its new telework policy in effect no later than [...]

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At the end of October, CREA was given proposed changes to CRS’s “Inquiries from the Public” guidelines. Management wanted to require that staff forward all inquiries to the Office of Communication, which would send out a neutral reply, declining any requests for information or assistance. The proposed guidelines did not give staff the discretion [...]

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