IRS recalls thousands of employees to work and asks them to bring their own safety gear
By TOBY ECKERT
04/25/2020 03:19 PM EDT
The IRS will start recalling “certain employees in mission-critical functions” to agency offices starting Monday, though it is urging them to bring their own face masks and suggesting the employees can make them out of t-shirts or bandanas, according to an internal memo circulated Saturday by two lawmakers.
Tony Reardon, who heads the National Treasury Employees Union, said separately that the “initial wave” will include about 10,000 employees at 10 locations who will be “opening taxpayer correspondence, handling tax documents, taking taxpayer telephone calls and performing other functions related to the filing season.”
The IRS shuttered all of its processing and taxpayer assistance centers in recent weeks to shield its workforce from exposure to the coronavirus, and thousands of its employees have been teleworking. But it is now scrambling to get economic stimulus payments to millions of Americans and to implement other key elements of the economic rescue package enacted last month.
The agency is asking for volunteers and offering incentive pay, Reardon said in a statement, but will order employees back if there are not enough volunteers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/25/irs-recalls-employees-to-work-207870
So if you don't show up, well, you lose your un-employment benefits and other benefits, see how this works.............just ask Kemp and that asshole in Texas, Florida and other right wing places why they are opening up stores...............this is about denying benefits ................
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