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At a congressional hearing, Pekoske said the agency used to provide that benefit but no longer does.
“I have no intention of restoring health care coverage for part-time workers. I think that was a good decision,” Pekoske told a House Homeland Security subcommittee. “We will certainly take care of our employees to the best of our ability and we provide robust guidance to our entire workforce with respect to how they prevent the disease in the first place.”
The TSA has put on leave “under 100” officers who it identified as coming in contact with one of three officers who tested positive for coronavirus at the San Jose, California, airport.
Those workers will be paid for the duration of a 14-day isolation period, Pekoske said.
The agency has also not attempted to perform contact tracing to identify passengers who may have been screened by the officers.
Pekoske said the health care determination is “consistent with practice throughout government and also in the private sector that if you’re a part-time employee, you are not eligible for full-time health care benefits,” and noted Congress did not supply funds for such payments in legislation it sent to the White House.
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