STAT+: CDC moves to end telework for employees, including those with medical needs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ended full-time telework agreements for reasonable accommodations for many employees, according to multiple employees familiar with the policy. 

Supervisors in some centers have been told in recent days that they can no longer approve temporary 90-day agreements for full-time telework, even requiring people with existing agreements to come into the office. 

These decisions have not been communicated in writing but were quickly disseminated in individual and all-staff meetings with CDC employees on the first morning back after the federal government shutdown ended. It’s the latest decision in a head-spinning saga that federal workers with disabilities and temporary health needs say has hindered their job performance and weakened their faith that the federal government is a place for them. 

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