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Social Security Ends Its Telecommuting Program

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 11/25/19

As of Nov. 22, 12,000 employees of the Social Security Administration across the country will no longer be able to work from home, as they have been doing for years, according to officials of the American Federation Government Employees.

The Trump Administration’s ending the popular program was the latest tangible evidence of its full-court press to upend decades of collective bargaining and drive out the unions that represent Federal workers, according to Ralph de Juliis, president of the AFGE Council that represents about 80 percent of the SSA staff.

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