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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OPM's actual guidance:"Critically, supervisors may allow employees to work from home during an emergency with a child or others in the home who need care, so long as employees document the hours they actually work and take appropriate leave for the time they aren’t working."

My agency is taking this to mean that if you care for your children during your 8-4:30 day, you need to take leave.

I'd like it interpreted that I can start work at 6am and work until midnight to get my 8.5 hours in. I will do the same work (lawyer), but I need flexibility on hours. My DH is active duty stationed overseas. [/quote]

This is really dependent on agency and if you can, you should ask for it. This is how we are interpreting it (also lawyers). We have variable weeks. 80 hours in 2 weeks is what you need, and at least for COVID purposes, if you work that time at 2 am or 6 am or whatever, we don't care so long as the work gets done. That's how my own office has handled leave for many years now anyway; the other offices are less flexible, but they have been directed to be flexible for this crisis.[/quote]

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