Chapter 3 – Personnel, Training, and Employee Relations

33060.3 Overview and Goals

• CDCRCalifornia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation/CCHCS recognizes the business, societal, and personal benefits that an effective telework program may provide, while considering the safety of CDCRCalifornia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation/CCHCS information assets. Telework may allow flexibility for employees to accomplish their work via office-centered or remote-centered telework schedules. This policy is established pursuant to Government Code sections 14200-14203, which requires every state department to incorporate telework as an option when it is both practical and beneficial to the department.

• The goals of the CDCRCalifornia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation/CCHCS telework program are to:

  • Encourage participation of eligible employees.

  • Reduce required state office space.

  • Improve employee retention and recruitment.

  • Maintain or improve employee productivity.

  • Reduce state environmental impacts, such as traffic congestion.

  • Maintain or improve customer service.