The Department of Housing and Urban Development has signed
a memorandum of understanding with a group of employees in
the American Federation of Government Employees — Council
222 — granting them administrative leave time for work in
support of housing assistance and community development,
AFGE has announced.
“We’ve been in talks with management since April on this
issue,” said Carolyn Federoff, president of Council 222,
“but the enormous demand for volunteer assistance for
victims of Hurricane Katrina created a level of urgency
that got the deal done.”
The MoU allows HUD employees one day of administrative
leave each month to carry out volunteer work that is
pre-approved by supervisors — or to draw all the days at
once from their “leave bank” to respond to a disaster such
as the recent hurricane.
