EEOC Delays Return-to-Office Plans as Omicron Variant Rages (1)

The EEOC is delaying workers’ return to its physical offices and will reevaluate those plans, citing employee concerns about the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

“Employees will be not required to begin physically reentering EEOC workplaces on the dates initially projected,” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Charlotte Burrows said in a Friday email obtained by Bloomberg Law. “In the meantime, we will continue to plan for reentry and are diligently working on a draft reentry plan to share with EEOC’s Union for purposes of formal impact and implementation bargaining.”

The American Federation of Government Employees Council 216, a union ...