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OPM’s Telework Shift: Why Monitoring Now Matters Legally federal employment opm guidance performance management reasonable accommodation telework policy Jan 07, 2026

Federal employees who rely on telework should pause and read the fine print of OPM’s revised guidance. The most consequential change is not about where work happens—it is about how work will be judged...

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Telework, SF-50s, and Locality Pay: What Feds Must Check federal employment locality pay opm guidance sf-50 telework policy Jan 06, 2026

For many GS-9 and above federal employees, telework has quietly shifted from a flexibility issue into a pay and compliance issue. OPM’s December 2025 Guide to Telework and Remote Work in the Federal G...

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OPM’s New Telework Rules: What Federal Employees Must Know federal employee rights federal employment opm guidance remote work telework policy Jan 05, 2026

Federal employees are hearing a familiar rumor again: telework is ending. That framing is misleading—and dangerously incomplete. What actually changed is how the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) n...

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CDC Telework Accommodations and Medical Privacy Risks federal employment medical privacy reasonable accommodation rehabilitation act telework policy Dec 17, 2025

Federal employees expect reasonable accommodation requests to be handled carefully, confidentially, and by trained professionals. Recent reports out of HHS—and specifically the CDC—suggest a process t...

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HHS’s New Telework Limits vs. the Rehabilitation Act federal employment hhs employees reasonable accommodation rehabilitation act telework policy Nov 21, 2025

CDC and HHS employees have been forwarding the new telework FAQ with a kind of stunned disbelief—and for good reason. The document attempts to cap all telework at 80 hours per year and declares that m...

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Religious Accommodation Rights for Federal Employees federal employment mindfulness at work religious accommodation telework policy title vii rights Sep 22, 2025

For decades, agencies could deny religious accommodations by pointing to any “more than tiny” cost or inconvenience. That changed in Groff v. DeJoy. Now, under Title VII, an agency must show a substan...

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Military Spouses & Remote Work: What This Means for You disability rights federal employment military spouses reasonable accommodation telework policy Feb 21, 2025

There’s good news for military spouses in federal employment! The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently issued a memo affirming that military spouses are exempt from return-to-office mandates....

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