A recent development involving reasonable accommodations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising questions for federal employees across the Department of Health and Human Services. According to Government Executive, CDC employees with pending reasonable accommodation requests were recently instructed to resubmit supporting medical documentation within 20 calendar days, including some employees who had previously provided documentation. Employees were wa

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.