Appeals Court Reinstates Trump Order against Unions While Challenge Continues
A federal appeals court has lifted a lower court’s injunction against President Trump’s executive order to repudiate existing contracts and to refuse …More
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Hill Democrats Expect Agencies to Interpret ‘Schedule Policy/Career’ Authority Broadly
A group of more than two dozen House and Senate Democrats has objected to finalization of the “Schedule Policy/Career” authority, …More
Court Issues Widescale Ban on RIFs, Reorganizations; Administration Appeals
A federal court has ordered that federal agencies stop conducting RIFs and reorganizations under a Trump administration executive order and …More
Begin Closer Monitoring of Employee On-Site Attendance, Agencies Told
OMB has told agencies that they have until July 4 to fully carry out new requirements to more closely monitor …More
VA Ordered to Revert to Management-Friendly Disciplinary Policies
In an executive order, President Trump has told the VA to revert to the management-friendly disciplinary policies in a 2017 …More
Bills on Probationary Periods, Job Protections, Other Issues Introduced
Among bills recently introduced in Congress are House measures to set new standards for probationary periods and to enhance hiring …More
House Panel Revisits FECA-Related Issues
A House committee has revisited long-running issues related to the Federal Employees Compensation Act program, including the question of whether …More
Bill to Increase Line-of-Duty Death Benefits Reintroduced
A bipartisan bill (HR-3317) has been reintroduced to increase payments to survivors on the death of a federal employee in …More
Budget Package Called a Mix of Incentives to Leave, Disincentives to Take Federal Employment
A budgetary package approved last week by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee amounts to a set of incentives …More
Trump Proposes No 2026 Raise for Employees, Cuts in Non-Defense Agencies
President Trump has issued a preliminary budget proposal for the fiscal year starting in October, calling for no pay raise …More
OPM Advocates ‘Forced Distribution’ of ‘Inflated’ SES Performance Ratings
OPM has proposed rules to carry out White House directives on performance evaluations of SES members, aiming to limit how …More
IRS Staffing Already Down 11 Percent, Says Report
In one of the first detailed assessments of the impact on employment at an agency under Trump administration policies, a …More
High Court Takes Broad Reading of Reservist Differential Eligibility
Federal employees who are called to active military duty as National Guard or Reserve members are eligible for differential that …More
Prior Policy on Hatch Act and Workplace Items Caused Confusion, OSC Says
The Office of Special Counsel has issued a further statement on its recent guidance regarding the wearing or display of …More
House Panel Advances Plan to Raise Retirement Contributions, Lessen Benefits
UPDATED: A House committee has passed a Republican leadership-crafted package that would degrade the value of benefits for newly retiring …More
C, S Funds Fall Again in April While I Fund Continues Gains
The TSP’s C fund of large U.S. companies and the S fund of medium and smaller U.S. companies continued to …More
Trump Order on Unions ‘Retaliatory,’ Judge Says in Blocking Enforcement in Agencies with NTEU Bargaining Units
UPDATED: A federal judge has called President Trump’s executive order to repudiate existing contracts and bar future bargaining across most of the …More
OPM: Agencies No Longer Need to Cite Performance Reasons when Firing Probationers
Federal agencies no longer need to cite a performance problem when firing federal employees during their probationary periods, OPM has …More
Campaign-Related Items in Workplace Now OK under Hatch Act, Says OSC
The Office of Special Counsel has reversed positions it took last year that had strengthened restrictions on wearing or displaying …More
Order Eases Removal of Probationary Employees, Sets Standards for Retaining them
President Trump has issued an executive order telling agencies to strengthen their scrutiny of federal employees in their probationary periods after hiring, …More
Defense Sec Calls for Reforms of “Weaponized” Equal Opportunity Programs
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called on the secretaries of each military department to carry out in depth reviews of their …More
Next Steps Taken Toward Launch of ‘Schedule Policy/Career’
The Trump administration has taken the next steps toward the launch of a “Schedule Policy/Career” excepted service category as successor …More
Uncertainty over Job Status Remains Widespread as Lawsuits Continue to Churn
An ever-growing list of lawsuits over the status of probationary employees, union contracts and planned layoffs continues to churn, leaving …More
$31B in Outflows From C, S Funds Over Past Two Months
TSP investors over the last two months have shifted more than $31 billion on a net basis out of the …More
Hiring Freeze Extended as Main Wave of RIFs and Reorganizations Approaches
President Trump has extended through July 15 the general federal hiring freeze he ordered at the outset of his term, …More
Budget Outline Clears Way for Move to Reduce Value of Federal Workforce Benefits
Updated: The House and Senate have now approved a budget outline that clears the way for a separate bill that …More
Supreme Court Action Leaves MSPB Without a Quorum Again
Updated: The MSPB is again without a quorum as the U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s request to …More
Trump Order Ends Policies that ‘Unnecessarily Restricted’ Federal Office Relocations
President Trump has issued an executive order opening the way for more relocations of federal offices by revoking policies that …More
Unions, Other Organizations Launch Federal Employee Legal Defense Network
A coalition of unions including the AFGE, NFFE and NTEU and other organizations including the Partnership for Public Service have …More
SSA Projects Finishing Work on GPO-WEP Repeal Law in November
The SSA has projected that it will finish recalculating benefits and sending back payments in November to those who will …More
