President Trump’s executive actions on January 20 mandated that federal employees, including those at the EPA in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, return to in-person work, disrupting telework arrangements established during the pandemic. This decision affects over 2,000 EPA workers in the area, prompting uncertainty among employees. Concurrently, Trump directed the EPA to reassess its approach to carbon dioxide regulation, particularly questioning the use of the 'social cost of carbon' in decision-making processes.
According to the Congressional Research Service, North Carolina is home to roughly 51,000 civilian federal employees. One of the state's biggest federal sites is in Research Triangle Park, where more than 2,000 workers and contractors report to the 509-acre campus of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis," the order read.
Since the pandemic, many Triangle-area EPA employees have routinely worked from home. While some have job duties that can only be completed on site, eligible staff were, under a previous agency rule, allowed to telework up to eight days each 10-day pay period.
Do we have to go into work now? Managers have told us to just wait for an official email. I assume it's going to take a while for them to figure out.
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