Posted on 04/18/2025 5:55:19 AM PDT by DFG
Employees at the Internal Revenue Service only had to show up to work in person once a week before President Trump took over and canned federal telework policies, The Post has learned.
Under the IRS’ most recent collective bargaining agreement brokered between the agency and its union last October, employees were eligible to telework up to eight days per biweekly pay period.
IRS officials had raised concerns that the generous telework policy would “impede on the agency’s ability to serve its client, the IRS, and taxpayers” and adversely impact worker performance. They cited their experiences during the pandemic, when remote work became widespread.
They also fretted that the cushy policy flouted rules from the Treasury Department, which oversees the tax-collecting agency, requiring it to have at least 40% of its workforce show up in person.
However, an arbitrator brushed those concerns aside and rejected the IRS’ push for a six-day telework cap per pay period.
“To hold telework solely responsible for such issues is inappropriate,” the arbitrator in union negotiations with the IRS concluded. “Given the need for supervisors to assess the portability of an individual employee’s work, I am not convinced there should be an arbitrary six-day cap.”
That deal between the IRS and its union, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), was negotiated using taxpayer funding, a pet peeve of Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), whose office unearthed the cushy telework arrangement.
It is not immediately clear how many taxpayer dollars were used to fund the IRS union negotiations. Back in 2019, the last time data was fully available, agencies across the federal bureaucracy spent $160 million on taxpayer-funded union time.
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Crazy.
“...before Trump took over.”. Snarky assclowns eh?
No wonder we needed 85,000 more of them!
We should keep it this way if you ask me.
Question and I know the real answer (washing machine answer). Why do government employees need a union? Is it the history of governments abusing their employees?
Time for Trump to overturn the executive order allowing federal employee unions.
just enough time to file audits on Americans for not paying their fair share and then its off to pajamas, video games TV and I phone texting
My ex sister in law was a DEA agent in the late 90s. Every holiday she would show up at her office for few minutes in the early AM. She was thrilled that she got double pay for that day. The abuse of the taxpayers is decades old.
That must have been one miserable day each week.
BTTT
I worked as an independent consultant for the N.J. State Judiciary for my last 11 1/2 years. The only reasons I had a job was because the pampered, spoiled, lazy, and incompetent employees could only be fired for violence, drugs, racism or sexism, once they became unionized they were protected. Even if they were guilty of one of the charges, they could keep their job if they went through some sort of rehab and said they were sorry. Half of the staff were outside consultants/contractors like myself. Not all of the employees were lazy slobs, there were always a few who were competent, dedicated, and also overworked, for the same pay raise as the others. These are the good guys, because there is no incentive provided to achieve any better unless you re self driven.
IRS workers work with very sensitive, personal data. There should be no remote access to this data. It should be allowed only at the IRS office, and that means no one should work “at home.”
Federal unions was JFK’s gift.
It’s bad enough that federal employees can be in a union, but the fact that the taxpayers also pay for the union officials makes it even worse
Wait -
someone actually created a poster calling nurses Thots? Or is this just something a covid denier cooked up to make fun of the BS churned out during Covid?
So the IRS is a money loser (!) due to unions?
Pronto.
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