General
Questions and answers
CTAP selection priority applies to a vacancy that is in the same local commuting area as a CTAP eligible individual’s permanent position of record. Whether an agency must apply CTAP to a remote employee will depend on the duty location specified in the JOA, the remote employee’s official position of record, and whether the hiring agency exercised its discretion to expand selection priority beyond the local commuting area specified in the JOA.
If the JOA specifies an agency worksite as the duty location, the hiring agency must provide selection priority to any CTAP eligible, including remote employees, whose official duty location is within the local commuting area of the JOA.