Like it or not, more federal workers telecommuting
January 25th, 2008 Posted in Environment
Boosting the ranks of federal employees who telework is a slow, sometimes painful process, despite numerous incentives and legislative edicts lobbed at U.S. agencies over the years.
Other stories on this topicTake the situation at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which last month was ordered by a federal arbitration panel to allow its legal instrument examiners to telework on a pilot basis.
Why don’t we do something similar in Ontario and legislate a small percentage of governments jobs as telework jobs for Northern Ontario communities. Steve