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Article: Hoyer Advocates for a Four-Day Work Week
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- August 22, 2008
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Like long weekends?
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) is pushing a work
week of four, 10-hour days for federal employees.
In a letter, released this week, to the Office of Personnel
Management, he asked the agency to "undertake comprehensive analysis
of the transitioning to a 4-day work week for all possible federal
employees and inform me by August 31, of any additional actions
Congress would need to take to implement such a policy by the end of
fiscal year 2008."
Hoyer acknowledged that federal agencies and departments "already
have discretion to implement alternative work schedules."
That discretion is underlined by an OPM document, "Negotiating
Flexible and Compressed Work ...