diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 72048d39f4..da7f8245a5 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Parsl - Parallel Scripting Library
 ==================================
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+|licence| |build-status| |docs| |NSF-1550588| |NSF-1550476| |NSF-1550562| |NSF-1550528| |CZI-EOSS|
 
 Parsl extends parallelism in Python beyond a single computer.
 
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ then explore the `parallel computing patterns <https://parsl.readthedocs.io/en/s
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+   :target: https://czi.co/EOSS
+   :alt: CZI's Essential Open Source Software for Science
 
    
 Quickstart
diff --git a/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py b/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py
index ec6abeff56..54b4053fed 100644
--- a/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py
+++ b/parsl/providers/slurm/slurm.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # From https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html#SECTION_JOB-STATE-CODES
-translate_table = {
+sacct_translate_table = {
     'PENDING': JobState.PENDING,
     'RUNNING': JobState.RUNNING,
     'CANCELLED': JobState.CANCELLED,
@@ -37,6 +37,20 @@
     'REQUEUED': JobState.PENDING
 }
 
+squeue_translate_table = {
+    'PD': JobState.PENDING,
+    'R': JobState.RUNNING,
+    'CA': JobState.CANCELLED,
+    'CF': JobState.PENDING,  # (configuring),
+    'CG': JobState.RUNNING,  # (completing),
+    'CD': JobState.COMPLETED,
+    'F': JobState.FAILED,  # (failed),
+    'TO': JobState.TIMEOUT,  # (timeout),
+    'NF': JobState.FAILED,  # (node failure),
+    'RV': JobState.FAILED,  # (revoked) and
+    'SE': JobState.FAILED   # (special exit state)
+}
+
 
 class SlurmProvider(ClusterProvider, RepresentationMixin):
     """Slurm Execution Provider
@@ -155,6 +169,23 @@ def __init__(self,
 
         self.regex_job_id = regex_job_id
         self.worker_init = worker_init + '\n'
+        # Check if sacct works and if not fall back to squeue
+        cmd = "sacct -X"
+        logger.debug("Executing %s", cmd)
+        retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait(cmd)
+        # If sacct fails it should return retcode=1 stderr="Slurm accounting storage is disabled"
+        logger.debug(f"sacct returned retcode={retcode} stderr={stderr}")
+        if retcode == 0:
+            logger.debug("using sacct to get job status")
+            # Using state%20 to get enough characters to not truncate output
+            # of the state. Without output can look like "<job_id>     CANCELLED+"
+            self._cmd = "sacct -X --noheader --format=jobid,state%20 --job '{0}'"
+            self._translate_table = sacct_translate_table
+        else:
+            logger.debug(f"sacct failed with retcode={retcode}")
+            logger.debug("falling back to using squeue to get job status")
+            self._cmd = "squeue --noheader --format='%i %t' --job '{0}'"
+            self._translate_table = squeue_translate_table
 
     def _status(self):
         '''Returns the status list for a list of job_ids
@@ -172,16 +203,14 @@ def _status(self):
             logger.debug('No active jobs, skipping status update')
             return
 
-        # Using state%20 to get enough characters to not truncate output
-        # of the state. Without output can look like "<job_id>     CANCELLED+"
-        cmd = "sacct -X --noheader --format=jobid,state%20 --job '{0}'".format(job_id_list)
+        cmd = self._cmd.format(job_id_list)
         logger.debug("Executing %s", cmd)
         retcode, stdout, stderr = self.execute_wait(cmd)
-        logger.debug("sacct returned %s %s", stdout, stderr)
+        logger.debug("sacct/squeue returned %s %s", stdout, stderr)
 
         # Execute_wait failed. Do no update
         if retcode != 0:
-            logger.warning("sacct failed with non-zero exit code {}".format(retcode))
+            logger.warning("sacct/squeue failed with non-zero exit code {}".format(retcode))
             return
 
         jobs_missing = set(self.resources.keys())
@@ -193,9 +222,9 @@ def _status(self):
             # For example "<job_id> CANCELLED by <user_id>"
             # This splits and ignores anything past the first two unpacked values
             job_id, slurm_state, *ignore = line.split()
-            if slurm_state not in translate_table:
+            if slurm_state not in self._translate_table:
                 logger.warning(f"Slurm status {slurm_state} is not recognized")
-            status = translate_table.get(slurm_state, JobState.UNKNOWN)
+            status = self._translate_table.get(slurm_state, JobState.UNKNOWN)
             logger.debug("Updating job {} with slurm status {} to parsl state {!s}".format(job_id, slurm_state, status))
             self.resources[job_id]['status'] = JobStatus(status,
                                                          stdout_path=self.resources[job_id]['job_stdout_path'],
@@ -203,9 +232,10 @@ def _status(self):
             jobs_missing.remove(job_id)
 
         # sacct can get job info after jobs have completed so this path shouldn't be hit
-        # log a warning if there are missing jobs for some reason
+        # squeue does not report on jobs that are not running. So we are filling in the
+        # blanks for missing jobs, we might lose some information about why the jobs failed.
         for missing_job in jobs_missing:
-            logger.warning("Updating missing job {} to completed status".format(missing_job))
+            logger.debug("Updating missing job {} to completed status".format(missing_job))
             self.resources[missing_job]['status'] = JobStatus(
                 JobState.COMPLETED, stdout_path=self.resources[missing_job]['job_stdout_path'],
                 stderr_path=self.resources[missing_job]['job_stderr_path'])