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• Trump administration tells agencies to push forward with return-to-office despite union agreements - February 3, 2025

• By Drew Friedman, Federal News Network

  The Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management is sharing details on how it plans to move forward with a full return-to-office push for federal employees, despite current telework agreements with federal unions.
  
  A memo Monday, signed by OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell, directed agencies not to implement any provisions of collective bargaining agreements that “purport to restrict the agency’s right to determine overall levels of telework.”
  
  The memo also called any telework provisions in union contracts that limit an agency’s ability to set telework policy “likely unlawful and unenforceable,” and stated that setting telework eligibility is a “management right.”

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