Trump Administration Orders IRS Workers Back To Office, Ignoring Union Contract
Source: Huff Post
Mar 1, 2025, 08:02 AM EST |Updated 3 hours ago
The Trump administration has ordered employees who work remotely for the Internal Revenue Service to return to office this month, signaling it intends to ignore telework protections in the agency’s union contract. The Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, issued a memo Friday saying it would “cancel” all regular telework agreements on March 8 for people who live within 50 miles of an office. They would be expected to report to work on March 10.
Many Treasury workers have remote-work protections in their collective-bargaining agreement. But the Treasury directive will require “100%” in-person work, “including members of a bargaining unit.” In a subsequent phase of the plan, workers who live more than 50 miles from an office would be assigned to one, suggesting they would be required to commute long distances or move to keep their jobs.
There would only be “limited exceptions” to the plan, such as for military spouses, according to the memo. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents thousands of IRS workers and other Treasury employees, sent an email to members Friday calling the mandate a clear violation of its agreement. It described the policy as “outrageous.”
“We will file a national grievance and unfair labor practice charge that will cover each one of you, and we will vigorously fight to have this policy rescinded and restore the hard-earned contractual rights of our members,” the union said. A Treasury employee, asking to speak on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, told HuffPost that workers across the agency were “furious.”
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