{"id":4412,"date":"2022-01-28T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2022-01-31T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:22:21","slug":"pef-applauds-attorney-general-james-approach-to-telecommuting-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/articles\/news\/pef-applauds-attorney-general-james-approach-to-telecommuting-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"PEF applauds Attorney General James&#8217; approach to telecommuting, COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4415\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4415 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/James-Inseeert.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/James-Inseeert.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/James-Inseeert-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Letitia James speaks to delegates at the PEF Convention on Oct, 25, 2021, in Niagara Falls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>PEF President Wayne Spence issued the following statement on Jan. 28, 2022:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PEF applauds New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 common-sense approach to telecommuting.\u00a0 In a memo to her staff this week, James noted that offices statewide will be \u201cat or below 50% capacity\u201d unless operational needs dictate otherwise.\u00a0 She also committed to continuing in-office contact tracing whenever employees exhibit COVID-19 symptoms, are exposed to a positive individual or they or someone else in their household tests positive.\u00a0 Social distancing and masking are required at all times for those who must work in the office, and KN95s are available for all employees. \u00a0Until the Omicron variant recedes and the risk of contagion lessens, PEF will advocate that other New York State agencies follow the Attorney General\u2019s lead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEF President Wayne Spence issued the following statement on Jan. 28, 2022: &#8220;PEF applauds New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 common-sense approach to telecommuting.\u00a0 In a memo to her staff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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