Energy Department staffers must return to their offices in coming weeks amid the ongoing threat of layoffs from the Trump administration for those who don’t comply, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.
Reesha Trenadel, DOE’s acting chief human capital officer, laid out a phased-in schedule with caveats for workers to return to office and for remote and telework agreement to be scrapped in a memo sent out to the agency’s headquarters, labs and other facilities.
“DOE has developed an orderly, phased implementation plan for [returning] employees to in-person work,” Trenadel wrote. “Subject to the exceptions listed below, existing routine telework and remote (all U.S. and restricted) work agreements will be terminated in accordance with the below schedule.”
Trenadel added that “situational telework agreements will be available to employees” with the approval of DOE leadership.
