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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DoD is saying situational telework is only for weather or other emergencies so not to benefit the employee. we were told we could not telework before a medical appointment or for a sick kid. I plan to leave my laptop at the office every day.[/quote]

Does it really benefit primarily the *employee* to be able to WFH while sick or recovering from surgery? I have 1000 hours of sick leave banked. I think it benefits the agency more than me to be able to work rather than get paid for watching TV for weeks while my foot heals.[/quote]

Not everyone has 1000 hours. I’m in the negative because I had to borrow sick leave to recover from my c-section, and that was over a year ago. So yes, being able to WFH when I’m sick benefits me because I would lose my job if I could not borrow any more sick leave and ran out of FMLA. And it allows me to recover faster if I’m not run ragged by commuting 2 hours every day. [/quote]

Why didn’t you have Paid Parental leave if you’re a fed who has a baby just one year ago?[/quote]

They likely took more than 3 months.[/quote]

Well, that’d be a personal decision, rather than a medical necessity, barring unusual complications.

Point is, a lot feds have many hours of sick leave banked, and we accrue 13 days a year, and with a ban on telework, the result will be much more paid sick leave being used. [/quote]

OPM encourages, or at least encouraged, sick leave to be used for birth recovery, followed by PPL. This is why both the birthing parent and non birthing parent get the same amount of time off. I think it’s fair to say that people who used sick leave to recover from childbirth—or who used sick leave to recover from anything recently—might feel blindsighted by the complete telework ban. I 100% anticipated being back in the office full time, I already come in 4-5 days a week, but didn’t think they would go beyond what we had in 2019, which included ad hoc and situational telework. I also don’t have tons of sick leave banked because of childbirth and daycare illnesses. The ability to telework after the baby got better and I was still contagious has been essential in protecting my coworkers and moving projects along. [/quote]

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