Federal employees have faced significant changes to telework since the administration moved to rescind existing federal telework agreements in January 2025. Those changes have raised concerns about employee rights, reasonable access to telework, medical privacy, and the status of negotiated workplace protections. The proposed Federal Telework Protection Act seeks to establish clearer standards for federal telework while strengthening protections for employees who request it.

A federal court has blocked the Trump-Vance administration from enforcing a requirement that applicants for federal civil service positions answer a politically focused essay question about the President’s executive orders and policy priorities while litigation challenging the requirement continues.

The Office of Personnel Management has finalized new regulations governing Critical Position Pay, or CPP, which allows agencies to offer higher salaries for certain mission-critical positions requiring an extremely high level of expertise.