LINCOLN- Nebraska's commission responsible for settling labor disputes ruled that some state departments violated the commission's order to pause return-to-office directives for remote workers represented by the state's largest public employee union. Employees had been granted a temporary relief order from Gov. Pillen's broad executive order that ended remote work.

But days after the relief was granted, some state departments began contacting remote and hybrid employees to notify them that their previously agreed-upon hybrid or work remote arrangements had been terminated and that they would be required to return to their physical worksite in mid-January.

The union accused the state of "willfully and contumaciously" violating the relief order. The relief order was clarified and deemed that the remote work status of union members "was not to be altered during the pendency of this case." The union's executive director, Justin Hubly, said, "Our union will hold management accountable for their actions, and should they ignore this order, they should expect to be held in contempt by the District Court.”

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