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Month: April 2020
National Officers Need Your Input
As the National Officers, we acknowledge that sometimes our focus is too often on the broad picture of Passport Services as a whole. Sometimes there are aspects of our jobs that are particular to one agency, or even one group that unfortunately get missed. We need to rectify this especially now when our safety and health is particularly in danger.
Over the past two months the National Officers have been posing questions, concerns, and recommendations to PMO and to Headquarters on how and when officers will be reopened. Our top priorities are the health and safety of BUEs as individuals, and the job security and stress level once returning to work. While we have not received the answers we have hoped, we need to continue to pose these questions, and we need to be as thorough as possible.
In order for our Union to be strong, we need to ensure that we are continually receiving input from our members across the network. It is vital that you help us create the most robust list of recommendations, questions, and concerns.
We are asking for you, regardless of your GS level, service length, or agency to please respond to the following to NFFE1998Comm@gmail.com.
1. What is your top priority before returning to work?
2. What is your biggest concern when you return to work?
3. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations for re-acclimation?
4. Do you have any questions or concerns that you believe are not being addressed?
5. What are you most unhappy about during this situation? (How you are contacted? The amount of communication? Lack of consistency?)
Even if you think your concerns have been heard, and are being addressed, we encourage you to send them anyway. This will allow us to ensure that we are indeed moving in the direction that best benefits and protects the BUE.
Your perspective is crucial. Without it, the Union cannot even begin to protect you and your rights. We want and need to hear from you no later than May 1, 2020.
In Solidarity,
Your NFFE1998 National Officers
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Second Voluntary Leave Bank Open Enrollment Season
Second Voluntary Leave Bank Open Enrollment Season – (April 12-May 12), 2020. Please get in contact with your direct supervisor for more information on the ALDAC referencing this open season.
Cancel your Annual Leave when on Weather and Safety Leave
Make sure to cancel any prescheduled leave that you have while on Weather and Safety Leave (WSL). If you don’t have your supervisor’s contact information, get in touch with your office by using the normal sick leave procedures. While it might seem obvious that we shouldn’t be charged leave while on WSL, that is not the case, and it’s up to us to cancel our prescheduled leave so we don’t get charged.
U.S. Department of State Values Employee Health, Stay at Home issued for CPC and APC!
On April’s Fools, the U.S. Department of State notified employees to convert its final two passport offices in South Carolina and Arkansas to mission critical status. Now, all non-essential employees within these two passport offices were placed on Weather and Safety Leave with direction to remain at home until further notice. The U.S. Department of State did this for the safety and health of its employees despite the governors of South Carolina and Arkansas having yet to implement a state wide “Stay at Home” Order, even though local authorities where the remaining passport offices are located had “Stay at Home” Orders to promote public health.
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