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
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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
Partnership Offers Tips for Federal Employees on Seeking Work in the Private Sector
In a sign of the times, the Partnership for Public Service has posted advice on resumes, interviewing and other things …More
Courts Unblock Probationary Federal Employee Firings as Cases Proceed
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a stay of a lower judge’s order that had required the Trump administration …More
Dispute over Union Order Grows as Agencies Prepare RIF, Reorganization Plans
With the April 14 deadline for agencies to have drafted specific RIF plans to present to OMB and OPM fast …More
Lawsuits Present Dueling Views of Trump Order on Federal Employee Rights
Lawsuits filed by the Trump administration and by a union present dueling views on the rights of federal employees to …More
TSP’s C Fund Falls into Negative Territory Year-to-Date; S Fund Drops Deeper
The TSP’s largest fund, the large company stock C fund, has fallen into negative territory year-to-date at -4.28 percent, following …More
Pentagon Announces Civilian Workforce Realignment; Reopens Deferred Resignation for DoD
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has signed a memo driving a broad realignment of the 900,000 defense civilian workforce, including …More
MSPB Loses Quorum as Disputes over Probationary Employee Firings Continue
The MSPB board now lacks a quorum and is unable to decide on appeals of firings and personnel actions brought …More
Return to Discipline Policies of First Trump Term, OPM Tells Agencies Affected by Order on Unions
President Trump’s executive order to terminate existing labor-management contracts and prohibit future bargaining in many agencies on national security grounds means that …More
