administrative leave

OPM Launches New Workforce Data Site to Modernize Access and Increase Transparency

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January 8, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC — The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today announced the launch of the Federal Workforce Data (FWD) website, a modern platform that replaces the outdated FedScope system and delivers faster, more transparent access to federal workforce data. The new site, available at data.opm.gov, introduces predictable monthly data updates, interactive visualizations, downloadable … Read more

USPS: Operations Policy for the Christmas Holiday and the New Year’s Day Holiday

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Operations Policy for the Christmas Holiday, Sunday, December 25, 2022 and the New Year’s Day Holiday, Sunday, January 1, 2023 December 7, 2022 This memorandum provides general operating policy and holiday planning guidance for the upcoming 2022 Christmas holiday and 2023 New Year’s Day holiday. Modified Collection Operations described below for these holidays are displayed … Read more

USPS Releases Updated Official COVID Decision Tree

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  The USPS has eliminated administrative leave for COVID-19. Employees that disclose they are infected with COVID-19 will be sent home for five days on Annual Leave, Sick Leave, or Leave Without Pay. Same if they disclose that they were exposed to an individual that was infected with COVID-19. See the attached COVID Decision Tree … Read more

USPS OIG Report: COVID-19 Leave Administration

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Objective Our objective was to assess the Postal Service’s management of its employees’ use of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). In March 2020, the president declared COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency and signed the FFCRA into law, creating two new types of leave: Up to … Read more

COVID-19 is an Act of God (Nature)

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The USPS COVID-19 decision tree (1-21-2021) says when a non-symptomatic employee shares a household with a COVID-19 positive individual or has been exposed outside of work to a COVID-19 positive individual, they are to be sent home without pay unless they use their own annual or sick leave. The employee that reveals this private information … Read more

USPS: Close Contact Tracing Program for COVID-19

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From: Dean, Rickey R – Washington, DC Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 9:22 AM To: LR Area Mgrs, HQ HR AREA HR MGRS Subject: Contact Tracing Program All, For your reference information, and as a reminder, attached is the Contact Tracing Program for COVID-19. The HQ COVID group has confirmed the attached is current and … Read more

USPS Mandatory Stand-Up Talk:  Proof of Concept Temperature Tests

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NPMHU – May 13, 2020 Please find linked below, a copy of the above-referenced document from the Postal Service regarding a mandatory Stand-up Talk concerning Proof of Concept Temperature Test to be Conducted in Two Postal Districts. According to the Postal Service, While the acceptance, processing and delivery of the nation’s mail and packages has … Read more