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2021 Special Session I

Budget Amendments - HB1800 (Conference Report)

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Recruitment and Retention of State Government Employees (language only) (language only)

Item 83 #1c

Item 83 #1c

Administration
Department of Human Resource Management

Language

Page 82, after line 28, insert:

“N. The Department in collaboration with the Department of General Services, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, and any other state agency upon request, shall examine the Commonwealth's existing telework policies, and how agency program and service delivery tools and methodologies employed during the COVID-19 pandemic may inform future policy objectives regarding the use of telework and alternative work schedules as a means of achieving administrative efficiencies, reducing cost, and sustaining the hiring and retention of a highly qualified workforce. The Department shall report to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees on its findings by September 1, 2021.”



Explanation

(This amendment directs the Department of Human Resource Management, in collaboration with other state agencies to review how teleworking can be used as a means to reduce operational costs for state government, and recruit and retain workers for state government jobs. A report on such findings and recommendations is due to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees by September 1, 2021.)