§6504 — Title 5 Government Organization and Employees | U.S. Code

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Executive agencies must work with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) when making telework rules. OPM must give guidance on things like pay and leave, agency closures, job performance, official worksites, hiring and keeping employees, and help for workers with disabilities. OPM must also help agencies set measurable telework goals and consult with FEMA about emergency operations, GSA about telework centers, travel, technology, equipment and dependent care, and NARA about records and preserving Presidential and Vice‑Presidential records. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, with DHS and NIST, must issue security rules within 180 days after this law starts. Those rules must cover access control, protection of agency information (including personal data), steps to reduce vulnerabilities, protection for systems not run by the agency, security for wireless and other communications, and prevention of using official time or resources to view, download, or share pornography, including child pornography. Agencies must include telework in their continuity plans, and those plans override normal telework rules during an emergency. OPM must keep a central telework website with links, announcements, and guidance, and it must post FEMA and GSA guidance sent to it within 10 business days. Within 120 days after the law starts, OMB must require agencies to buy computer systems that support telework unless the agency head has a mission-specific reason not to.

Title 5, §6504

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(a)Each executive agency shall consult with the Office of Personnel Management in developing telework policies.

(b)The Office of Personnel Management shall—

(1)provide policy and policy guidance for telework in the areas of pay and leave, agency closure, performance management, official worksite, recruitment and retention, and accommodations for employees with disabilities;

(2)assist each agency in establishing appropriate qualitative and quantitative measures and teleworking goals; and

(3)consult with—

(A)the Federal Emergency Management Agency on policy and policy guidance for telework in the areas of continuation of operations and long-term emergencies;

(B)the General Services Administration on policy and policy guidance for telework in the areas of telework centers, travel, technology, equipment, and dependent care; and

(C)the National Archives and Records Administration on policy and policy guidance for telework in the areas of efficient and effective records management and the preservation of records, including Presidential and Vice-Presidential records.

(c)(1)The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, shall issue guidelines not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this chapter to ensure the adequacy of information and security protections for information and information systems used while teleworking.

(2)Guidelines issued under this subsection shall, at a minimum, include requirements necessary to—

(A)control access to agency information and information systems;

(B)protect agency information (including personally identifiable information) and information systems;

(C)limit the introduction of vulnerabilities;

(D)protect information systems not under the control of the agency that are used for teleworking;

(E)safeguard wireless and other telecommunications capabilities that are used for teleworking; and

(F)prevent inappropriate use of official time or resources that violates subpart G of the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch by viewing, downloading, or exchanging pornography, including child pornography.

(d)(1)Each executive agency shall incorporate telework into the continuity of operations plan of that agency.

(2)During any period that an executive agency is operating under a continuity of operations plan, that plan shall supersede any telework policy.

(e)The Office of Personnel Management shall—

(1)maintain a central telework website; and

(2)include on that website related—

(A)telework links;

(B)announcements;

(C)guidance developed by the Office of Personnel Management; and

(D)guidance submitted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the General Services Administration to the Office of Personnel Management not later than 10 business days after the date of submission.

(f)Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this chapter, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue policy guidance requiring each executive agency when purchasing computer systems, to purchase computer systems that enable and support telework, unless the head of the agency determines that there is a mission-specific reason not to do so.

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The date of enactment of this chapter, referred to in subsecs. (c)(1) and (f), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 111–292, which was approved Dec. 9, 2010.

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