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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a Christian who is about to request Friday telework to attend an in-person prayer group at my church on Friday mornings. The June 16 OPM is so broad and so tilted toward the employee that I figure why not try this. I think you should definitely request it. No one but your supervisor needs to know the details. Good luck! 👍[/quote]

Do you have enough leave to cover the time off to attend?[/quote]

Read the memo. Telework accommodation for time-specific prayers. The burden shifts to agency to establish undue hardship.

I know the fed haters on DCUM will go apoplectic.[/quote]

Not the PP but I read the memo and nowhere in there does it say someone doesn’t have to take leave for these things, only that they should be allowed to telework. [b] Telework does not equal go to church (or the gym or grocery shopping).  That mindset is what got us here in the first place.[/b]

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Exactly.  Praying =/= working for a check paid by taxpayers [/quote]

It's pretty obvious the assumption here is that someone will shift their workday around to cover the time away for prayers and start earlier or work later to cover the time away. [/quote]

What about core hours? Right now we have to use sick leave if we schedule a dr appt during core hours and can telework the rest of the time (or schedule after core hours, use no sick time and telework the full day). I assume the same would apply to some random prayer group that meets during core hours, no?
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