Sponsor
Andrew S. Biggs
Representative · R-AZ
Representative · R-AZ
The bill quickly restores pre‑pandemic telework rights and consistent rules for federal employees, improving certainty for remote work but creating short-term implementation costs, limiting adoption of newer workplace practices, and raising the risk of labor disputes.
Federal employees will regain their pre‑2020 telework eligibility, restoring the remote-work arrangements they had on Dec 31, 2019.
Federal employees will have more consistent telework rules because agencies must align policies across bargaining agreements, reducing ambiguity about who qualifies for remote work.
Federal employees and unions may face labor disputes or legal challenges because reinstating prior policy could conflict with collective bargaining provisions.
Federal employees and agencies could lose the ability to adopt newer, post‑2019 flexible workplace practices because the bill restores earlier telework rules.
Agency managers and HR offices will face a short‑term administrative burden and potential costs to implement the required policy changes within 60 days.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires executive agencies to reinstate the telework policies they used on December 31, 2019 within 60 days and gives those policies priority over conflicting agreements.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress January 3, 2025
Requires heads of executive branch agencies to restore the telework (remote work) policies that each agency had in place on December 31, 2019, and to do so within 60 days of the law taking effect. The restored policy takes precedence over any conflicting telework provisions in agency policies, collective bargaining agreements, or other employment agreements. The law uses existing statutory definitions of “Executive agency,” “reinstated telework policy,” and “telework,” and makes the reinstated policy immediately controlling to the extent it conflicts with other rules or agreements.