Some employees in the DOJ office handling immigration appeals suspect the department is prioritizing high deportation numbers over worker safety
The office requires most support staff to come in, rather than telework, as they deal with physical pieces of paper and files as part of their work, per the complaint. The few who can work from home can only do so once a week, and on rotating days because they share the same laptop, the complaint reads. At work, support staff sit in cubicles in a shared area, “in direct breathing paths of each other,” it says.
“EOIR also recognizes that its employees are part of a critical infrastructure workforce whose mission-critical functions include ensuring due process and an opportunity to be heard for individuals in custody,” the statement continued. “Accordingly, EOIR’s current operational status is largely in line with that of most courts across the country, which have continued to receive and process filings and to hold critical hearings, while deferring others as appropriate.
Sykes said the staff who have to go in to work — up to 20 employees plus 15 contractors on a given weekday, by her estimate — are the office’s lowest-paid.
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