The Interior Department has sent a reminder to employees that they must return to work at the office on June 16 — unless there’s not enough room for them.
The department promised in an email to staff Friday they’ll be granted up to a one-month reprieve — until July 16 — from the return-to-office order the agency issued in April if space cannot be found for those employees by next Monday’s deadline.
The email noted that the department is “diligently” working to find a “workstation” for each returning employee. And when a location has been found, regardless of whether it’s at an Interior building or at another agency’s, “the employee must accept it,” according to the email viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The email, which wasn’t signed by a specific Interior official, is the latest in the administration’s ongoing effort to force federal workers to return to the office in accordance with an executive order President Donald Trump issued in January. The order targeted telework and remote work for federal employees.
