Due to the unavailability of patent systems for all or a portion of the day on Monday, June 1, employees should record their time in one of the following ways outlined below. This guidance supersedes any previous guidance on recording time for the Monday, June 1, 2020 outage.
POPA News Feed
!0:00 AM Sent by the ENS - PTO is experiencing a widespread technical issue. Contacting OCIO Support Desk will not resolve this situation. More information on this situation will be posted to the system 411 page shortly and provided in a forthcoming update (https://www.uspto.gov/blog/system411/)
Emergency Paid Sick Leave under Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA)
As we told you previously, several Congressional representatives sent a letter to congressional leaders asking for paid parental leave to be extended to cover eligible federal workers for a birth, adoption, or foster care placement that occurs between December 20, 2019 and October 1, 2020. If this affects you or you believe this to be the right thing to do, contact your congressional representatives and let them know you support this change!
Previously, Colonial Parking stated that if the USPTO was still operating under mandatory telework guidance as of Fricay, May, 22, Colonial would require all tag master devices be returned, or parking accounts would be charged $60, the nonrefundable cost of the device. This is no longer the case.