Congressional Research Employees Association

 
CREA has a position statement on outside writing, revised in January 2010. Please see CREA on Outside Writing. Also feel free to consult your CREA representative with questions.

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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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CREA would like to know if you are receiving an increased amount of comments or inquiries, by phone or email, from outside groups or the public at-large as a result of your phone numbers and email addresses being on all your CRS reports.
Before the new authoring and publishing system went live two months ago, many [...]

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Policy on Temporary Part-time Schedules for Permanent and Indefinite Full-time Employees
On Monday, August 25, the Director announced a new CRS policy on Temporary Part-time Schedules for Permanent and Indefinite Full-time Employees. CREA thanks the Director for the opportunity to work with management in their development of this policy.
As you may remember, CREA, with DSP [...]

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