Federal employees have faced significant changes to workplace policies, collective bargaining rights, staffing levels, and agency operations. But recent court developments are an important reminder: federal unions are still active, still challenging actions that affect employees, and still working to protect the federal workforce. Recent legal developments involving FEMA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and federal hiring practices demonstrate how unions continue

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.