HHS faces months-long backlog of reasonable accommodation requests from employees
HHS faces months-long backlog of reasonable accommodation requests from employees  
Podcast: The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
Published On: Wed Dec 03 2025
Description: The Department of Health and Human Services is centralizing the processing of reasonable accommodation requests from its employees. As a result, it’s facing a months-long backlog. HHS employees say the department is making it harder for employees with disabilities to receive telework as a reasonable accommodation as the Trump administration enforces a return to office mandate. For more on this, we’re joined by Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.