Posted by OPM or the United States office of Personnel Management has announced on February 7, 2010 (at 5 PM) through an internet message posted on its website, opm.gov, that the federal agencies located in the Washington DC area will be closed on Monday February 8.
Due to this announcement, the opm.gov status page incidentally went down due to extreme level of traffic as numerous people try to come together at the site for confirmation and information of the agencies’ closing on the announced date after the biggest snowstorm that hit the area after 100 years during February 5 to 6.
OPM is the independent agency of the US government that is in charge of managing the civil service of the federal government. It is also responsible in the recruitment, retaining and honoring of a world-class workforce rendering service to the USA citizens. The idea that Federal agencies are closed on the announced date implies a number of meanings:
- Nonemergency employees and those employees who are on pre-approved leave are granted excused absence for which they are scheduled to work on a given number of hours. However, this does not apply to employees on leave without pay, leave without pay for military duty, workers’ compensation, suspension, or in another nonpay status
- Teleworkers are still expected to work from their designated sites, as stated and stipulated in their work agreement
- Emergency employees are supposed to report for work at the exact time.
- Workers that are on alternative work schedules are not permitted to other AWS day off in lieu of the workday when the agency is closed
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