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CDC pauses remote work arrangements for employees with disabilities, union says
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(Brynn Anderson | AP)A union representing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers is accusing the federal agency of jeopardizing accommodations for its disabled employees by ending remote work.
Members of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a union representing over 800,000 federal employees across the U.S., say that the revised policy’s lack of clarity around remote work has stoked confusion among staff members with remote-work arrangements as well as their supervisors.
“Employees are finding out secondhand and last minute.”The HHS and CDC were not immediately available for comment.
The source said the CDC has not provided official figures on how many disabled employees have telework as a reasonable accommodation in their roles.
Employees can still work remotely until their current telework arrangements expire, according to the memo.
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