More Than 1,000 EPA Employees Protest Return-to-Office Mandate

More than 1,000 EPA employees have filed individual grievances against the agency for seeking to end remote work and telework, according to the agency’s biggest union.

The raft of new filings come in support of two grievances the American Federation of Government Employees Council 238 filed in mid-February.

One grievance, reviewed by Bloomberg Law, argues the agency “clearly violated the plain language” of a contract between the union and the Environmental Protection Agency signed last summer.

The contract has extensive provisions covering both remote work and telework, including language stating the eligibility to telework is to be based on ...