SEC Union Sign New Collective Bargaining Agreement
According to the GovernmentExecutive.com:
The National Treasury Employees Union announced on Friday that it had signed a new collective bargaining agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that expands the agency's telework program and makes the SEC "one of the most employee-friendly agencies in the federal government," according to NTEU President Colleen Kelley.
The telework program allows SEC employees to work from home as many as five days a week.
The agreement also creates a new "4/10" schedule allowing employees to work four ten-hour days each week, in addition to a "5-4/9" schedule that permits employees to work eight nine-hour days and take off one day every two weeks.
The SEC had wanted a provision that would have allowed supervisors to remove employees from the 5-4/9 schedule at management's discretion, but it was not enacted in the final agreement, NTEU officials said...click to continue.
