Punching In: Rank and File Returning to Labor Department Desks

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Rebecca Rainey: U.S. Labor Department employees are scheduled to begin getting back to in-office work next week, after multiple delays in the agency’s return plans for its roughly 15,000 workers across the country.

The department will allow staff to return at 50% capacity starting Feb. 28, according to an email sent to agency staff on Friday, a copy of which was shared with Bloomberg Law. Workers in positions “performing critical functions,” or in jobs “that must be” or “are better performed onsite,” are ...