by Nicholas Ballasy at Just the News
The Republican-led House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would bring more federal employees back to offices in Washington D.C.
The Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act or SHOW UP Act of 2023 “requires each executive agency to reinstate the telework policies that were in place on December 31, 2019.”
The final vote was 221-206.
Under the legislation, federal agencies cannot “implement expanded telework policies unless the Office of Personnel Management certifies that such policies will have a positive effect on the agency’s mission and operational costs.”
The $2.2 trillion CARES Act, the first of three pandemic stimulus bills, provided federal agencies with nearly $5 billion to expand teleworking infrastructure.
Federal employees can still telework under the legislation,…
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