Back to Work Act

3.0.0 357 2025-05-27T21:27:51Z 2025-05-27T21:27:51Z House H HR 2025-01-13 119 <pre>[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 6 (Monday, January 13, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. NUNN of Iowa:H.R. 357.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution tomake all Laws which shall be necessary and proper forcarrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all otherPowers vested by this Constitution in the Government of theUnited States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.[Page H112]</pre> hsgo00 Oversight and Government Reform Committee House Standing Referred To 2025-01-13T17:04:05Z 2025-01-13 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsgo00 Oversight and Government Reform Committee 2025-01-13 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2025-01-13 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress N000193 Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3] Zachary Nunn R IA 3 N N000189 Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] Dan Newhouse R WA 4 2025-01-13 True Government Operations and Politics Commuting 2025-03-05T16:11:10Z Computers and information technology 2025-03-05T16:11:16Z Congressional oversight 2025-03-05T16:11:21Z Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management 2025-03-05T16:11:05Z Government Operations and Politics 2025-02-26T20:07:07Z

00 2025-01-13 Introduced in House 2025-05-27T21:26:38Z Back to Work ActThis bill limits federal agency employees' telework to up to 40% of the work days in any pay period and eliminates certain pay increases for teleworking employees.Under current law, executive agencies must maintain policies detailing how their employees may work remotely and enter into telework agreements with participating employees. The bill requires telework agreements to cap employees' telework at 40% of the work days in a pay period, specify that the agency will monitor employees' telework via remote technical methods, and make telework subject to annual review by the agency. The bill also eliminates locality-based and automatic annual pay adjustments for employees with telework agreements.The bill authorizes agencies to further restrict the amount of telework permitted based on an employee's specific role or other circumstances (e.g., working with classified information). Agencies may also waive the limitation for inclement weather or exigent circumstances or for an employee who (1) is married to a member of the Armed Forces or federal law enforcement officer; (2) holds a position requiring highly specialized experience or frequent travel; or (3) holds a position that is difficult to fill.Additionally, the bill requires annual agency reports to Congress describing the effectiveness of agency telework policies. The Government Accountability Office must evaluate the accuracy and thoroughness of each report in an accompanying report to Congress.

Back to Work Act Display Title 45 Back to Work Act 2025-02-11T05:08:17Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Back to Work Act 2025-02-11T05:08:16Z Introduced in House IH Official Title as Introduced 6 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide limitations on Federal teleworking, and for other purposes. 2025-02-11T05:03:26Z Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2025-01-13T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr357ih/xml/BILLS-119hr357ih.xml 2025-01-13 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.