Article Title: Internal Veterans Affairs memo shows plan to scrutinize disability work from home accommodations
Article Excerpt: "...A department press secretary said the new policy is to ensure reasonable accommodations remain "necessary, reasonable and effective,"... Deputy VA Secretary Paul R. Lawrence in a June 5 memo to department undersecretaries and assistant secretaries obtained by Government Executive said that a member of the senior executive service (highest-ranking career employees) or SES-equivalent must now sign off on an RA request for more than eight weeks of regular or recurring telework or remote work.
Lawrence also said that supervisors must, at least annually, review RAs approved without an end date to assess their “appropriateness and effectiveness.”
The memo also orders a 90-day review of RA approvals since Jan. 1, 2025, for...
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