Essential federal employees will be eligible for vaccines in the District of Columbia next month.
Employees are considered essential if they can't perform their job duties remotely or via telework and have to report to work in-person during the pandemic, according to guidance released by the District on Monday. The Phase 1C Tier 3 that covers them will open up the week of April 12. This week, employees at the Postal Service also became eligible in the district.
That expansion, however, won't include federal employees working in-person, but not in the city.
"More than 80% of federal employees live and work outside of the D.C. region," including many employees working in-person at the Internal Revenue Service, said Tony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union.