[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 28 (Monday, July 18, 1994)]
[Page 1468]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Expanding Family-Friendly Work Arrangements in the 
Executive Branch

July 11, 1994

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies

Subject: Expanding Family-Friendly Work Arrangements in the Executive 
Branch

    In order to recruit and retain a Federal work force that will 
provide the highest quality of service to the American people, the 
executive branch must implement flexible work arrangements to create a 
``family-friendly'' workplace. Broad use of flexible work arrangements 
to enable Federal employees to better balance their work and family 
responsibilities can increase employee effectiveness and job 
satisfaction, while decreasing turnover rates and absenteeism. I 
therefore adopt the National Performance Review's recommendation that a 
more family-friendly workplace be created by expanding opportunities for 
Federal workers to participate in flexible work arrangements, consistent 
with the mission of the executive branch to serve the public.
    The head of each executive department or agency (hereafter 
collectively ``agency'' or ``agencies'') is hereby directed to establish 
a program to encourage and support the expansion of flexible family-
friendly work arrangements, including: job sharing; career part-time 
employment; alternative work schedules; telecommuting and satellite work 
locations. Such a program shall include:
    (1) identifying agency positions that are suitable for flexible work 
      arrangements;
    (2) adopting appropriate policies to increase the opportunities for 
      employees in suitable positions to participate in such flexible 
      work arrangements;
    (3) providing appropriate training and support necessary to 
      implement flexible work arrangements; and
    (4) identifying barriers to implementing this directive and 
      providing recommendations for addressing such barriers to the 
      President's Management Council.
    I direct the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 
(``OPM'') and the Administrator of General Services (``GSA'') to take 
all necessary steps to support and encourage the expanded implementation 
of flexible work arrangements. The OPM and GSA shall work in concert to 
promptly review and revise regulations that are barriers to such work 
arrangements and develop legislative proposals, as needed, to achieve 
the goals of this directive. The OPM and GSA also shall assist agencies, 
as requested, to implement this directive.
    The President's Management Council, in conjunction with the Office 
of Management and Budget, shall ensure that any guidance necessary to 
implement the actions set forth in this directive is provided.
    Independent agencies are requested to adhere to this directive to 
the extent permitted by law.
    This directive is for the internal management of the executive 
branch and is not intended to, and does not, create any right or 
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by a party against the 
United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or 
employees, or any other person.
    The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is authorized 
and directed to publish this directive in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:34 p.m., July 13, 
1994]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on July 15.