Long COVID is a newer medical condition that manifests differently among patients, so applications for various disability-based benefit programs based on long COVID may take more time to process or receive greater scrutiny. For federal employees with this illness,...
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Failure to promote: Technological bias against older federal workers
Expectations about the technological abilities of federal (and all other) employees may have changed and evolved because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During quarantine, many people had to work from home and use technology from a remote location. Naturally, this may have...
Unraveling the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for the federal workforce, part 2
Today we continue our post about President Joe Biden’s September 2021 Executive Order 14043 that mandates federal employees (and contractors) to become fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by Nov. 22, 2021. As we explained in part 1, some exceptions to the...
Understanding the federal employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate, part 1
To comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccination mandate, federal employees need to sear four dates into their memories: Oct. 11, Oct. 18, Nov. 8 and Nov. 22, 2021. On Nov. 22, all federal employees (and federal contractors) must be fully vaccinated against the novel...
About 4000 federal employees say they contracted the coronavirus at work and 60 have died
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