Recently introduced legislation would stop the Biden administration’s efforts to permanently expand telework for federal employees.
The bill is known as the Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems (SHOW UP) Act (H.R. 7835) and was introduced by Congresswoman Yvette Herrell (R-NM).
A press release about the legislation states, “Using the pandemic experience as an excuse, the Biden Administration intends to permanently expand telework for federal employees with no concern for the possible impacts on agency performance.”
The bill would prevent the Biden Administration from unilaterally making pandemic-era telework for the federal workforce permanent until it provides Congress with a plan to avoid the potential adverse effects of remote work.
If enacted, it would immediately roll the federal government’s telework policy back to what was in place on December 31, 2019.
Additionally, within 6 months of enactment, the head of each federal agency would be required to submit a study to Congress which details the impact to the agency’s performance on expanded use of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing an analysis of:
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