94-17409. Expanding Family-Friendly Work Arrangements in the Executive Branch

[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 135 (Friday, July 15, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 36017-36018]
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                        Presidential Documents 


Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 135
Friday, July 15, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
                Memorandum of July 11, 1994

 

Expanding Family-Friendly Work Arrangements in 
                the Executive Branch

                Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and 
                Agencies

                In order to recruit and retain a Federal work force 
                that will provide the highest quality of service to the 
                American people, the executive branch must implement 
                flexible work arrangements to create a ``family-
                friendly'' workplace. Broad use of flexible work 
                arrangements to enable Federal employees to better 
                balance their work and family responsibilities can 
                increase employee effectiveness and job satisfaction, 
                while decreasing turnover rates and absenteeism. I 
                therefore adopt the National Performance Review's 
                recommendation that a more family-friendly workplace be 
                created by expanding opportunities for Federal workers 
                to participate in flexible work arrangements, 
                consistent with the mission of the executive branch to 
                serve the public.

                The head of each executive department or agency 
                (hereafter collectively ``agency'' or ``agencies'') is 
                hereby directed to establish a program to encourage and 
                support the expansion of flexible family-friendly work 
                arrangements, including: job sharing; career part-time 
                employment; alternative work schedules; telecommuting 
                and satellite work locations. Such a program shall 
                include:

                (1) identifying agency positions that are suitable for 
                flexible work arrangements;

                (2) adopting appropriate policies to increase the 
                opportunities for employees in suitable positions to 
                participate in such flexible work arrangements;

                (3) providing appropriate training and support 
                necessary to implement flexible work arrangements; and

                (4) identifying barriers to implementing this directive 
                and providing recommendations for addressing such 
                barriers to the President's Management Council.

                I direct the Director of the Office of Personnel 
                Management (``OPM'') and the Administrator of General 
                Services (``GSA'') to take all necessary steps to 
                support and encourage the expanded implementation of 
                flexible work arrangements. The OPM and GSA shall work 
                in concert to promptly review and revise regulations 
                that are barriers to such work arrangements and develop 
                legislative proposals, as needed, to achieve the goals 
                of this directive. The OPM and GSA also shall assist 
                agencies, as requested, to implement this directive.

                The President's Management Council, in conjunction with 
                the Office of Management and Budget, shall ensure that 
                any guidance necessary to implement the actions set 
                forth in this directive is provided.

                Independent agencies are requested to adhere to this 
                directive to the extent permitted by law.

                This directive is for the internal management of the 
                executive branch and is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable by a party against the United States, its 
                agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or 
                employees, or any other person.

                The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is 
                authorized and directed to publish this directive in 
                the Federal Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)>

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, July 11, 1994.

[FR Doc. 94-17409
Filed 7-13-94; 3:34 pm]
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