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
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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
Trump Order Would Repudiate Labor Contracts, End Future Representation for Most Feds; Unions to Sue
An executive order from President Trump would cancel existing labor-management contracts and revoke bargaining and other forms of union representation …More
Agencies Covered by Trump Order Told to ‘Disregard’ Contract Provisions on RIFs
Federal agencies affected by President Trump’s executive order to repudiate union contracts covering the majority of union-represented federal employees on …More
High Court Asked to Block Order Requiring Reinstatement of Fired Probationary Employees
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court’s order requiring federal agencies to rehire …More
Senators Ask for IG Reviews of Probationary Employee Firings
A group of 16 Democratic senators has asked the inspectors general of two dozen departments and agencies to investigate whether …More
Trump Tells OPM to Take Direct Role in Disciplining Employees of Other Agencies; Focus on Suitability
President Trump has ordered OPM to take a direct role in disciplining employees of other agencies by invoking “suitability” considerations …More
Injunction Issued against DOGE Access to Federal Personnel Files
A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against DOGE project employees having access to personal information on federal employees …More
Auditors Raise Warning about Staff Cuts at FDIC
In what is one of the first, if not the first, auditors’ report on the impact of staffing cuts at …More
MSPB Overrules OPM Policy on Retirement Benefits; Cites Lowered Standard of Deference
In one of the early rulings showing the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last year lowering the deference …More
Agency Workforces Churn under Impact of Trump Orders, Legal Rulings
UPDATED: The federal workplace has entered an even higher level of disruption as agency workforces churn under the impact of …More
Report Questions Using Shutdown Contingency Plan as Guide to RIFs
A report for Congress has raised issues regarding the Trump administration’s use of shutdown contingency plans as a guide to …More
EEOC: Policies under Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act to Continue—for Now
The EEOC has said it will continue to apply its interpretation of protections under the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act for …More
Judge Orders FLRA Member Reinstated; Returns Board to Democratic Majority
In the latest of rulings overturning firings of the heads of independent federal agencies, a federal judge has ordered Susan Tsui Grundmann …More
Funding Bill Passes, With Dem Lawmakers Splintered
Updated: The Senate advanced a cloture vote on Friday to end debate on a continuing resolution to fund the government …More
Many Thousands More Fired Probationary Employees Ordered Reinstated
Updated: Two federal judges have ordered the reinstatement of many thousands of probationary employees fired by the Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, …More
Review Union Contracts for ‘Unenforceable’ Limits on RIFs, Agencies Told
In a memo that lays the groundwork for wide-scale reductions-in-force projected to come across the government, agencies have been told …More
Ethics Restrictions Still Apply During ‘Deferred Resignation’ Status, DoD Cautions
Those on paid administrative leave after having accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer remain subject to federal employment ethics …More
Bills on Retirement Benefits, Other Issues Reintroduced
Among bills recently reintroduced in Congress is HR-1522, affecting federal employees who began their careers after 1988 as temporary workers …More
DHS Withdraws Bargaining Rights from TSA Screeners
DHS has withdrawn collective bargaining rights from TSA’s 47,000 transportation security officers—screeners—reversing more than a decade of allowing them and likely setting …More
Special Counsel Out, Drops Appeal of His Firing; Challenges to Probationers’ Firings at Stake
UPDATED: Hampton Dellinger has dropped his challenge to his firing as head of the Office of Special Counsel in the …More
MSPB Blocks Firings of Probationary Agriculture Department Employees as Legal Disputes Escalate
The MSPB has blocked the firings of some 5,900 Agriculture Department probationary employees and ordered them reinstated, in an order that represents …More
Judge Overturns Firing of MSPB Member as Appeals Flood Agency
A federal judge has overturned the Trump administration’s firing of a member of the MSPB governing board in a ruling …More
More Than a Third of Those Eligible under GPO-WEP Repeal Getting Back Payments, Says SSA
The SSA has said it has sent payments to more than a third of those eligible for retroactive payments under …More
Memo Outlines Plan to Cut Around 80K VA Employees
A reduction in force memo from the VA has outlined plans to return that workforce to its 2019 force level …More
Parties Dig in Ahead of Deadline to Prevent Shutdown
Spending authority for federal agencies funded through appropriations expires next Friday (March 14), an often-repeated situation of recent years with …More
