Sec. 2. Teleworking requirements for Federal employees
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In this section— the term agency means each authority of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States; the term covered period means the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the date on which the public health emergency declared by the Secretary under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ) on January 31, 2020, with respect to COVID–19 (including any renewal of that declaration) terminates; the term Director means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management; the term eligible employee means an employee who— the head of the agency employing the employee has determined is eligible to telework; and has not been officially disciplined for— being absent without permission for more than 5 days in any calendar year; or viewing, downloading, or exchanging pornography, including child pornography, on a Federal Government computer or while performing official Federal Government duties; the term employee means an employee of an agency; the term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services; and the term telework has the meaning given the term in section 6501 of title 5, United States Code.
Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 65 of title 5, United States Code, the head of each agency shall— permit eligible employees with respect to the agency to telework on a full-time basis during the covered period; and review, with respect to employees of the agency for whom the agency head has not made a determination described in subsection (a)(4)(A), whether such a determination should be made. The head of an agency may waive the requirements of any provision of paragraph
(1)that applies with respect to an employee of the agency if the agency head determines that there is a compelling reason for the waiver that relates to the effective operation of the Federal Government. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director, in coordination with the Secretary, shall establish a policy— to maximize the use of telework by the Federal workforce during a period in which there is in effect a public health emergency that the Secretary declares under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ) on a date that is after the date of enactment of this Act with respect to an outbreak of an infectious disease; and that shall be designed to be implemented before implementing any continuity of operations plan with respect to any outbreak described in subparagraph (A).
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Teleworking requirements for Federal employees
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