An executive order from President Trump would cancel existing labor-management contracts and revoke bargaining and other forms of union representation …More
Federal agencies affected by President Trump’s executive order to repudiate union contracts covering the majority of union-represented federal employees on …More
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court’s order requiring federal agencies to rehire …More
A group of 16 Democratic senators has asked the inspectors general of two dozen departments and agencies to investigate whether …More
President Trump has ordered OPM to take a direct role in disciplining employees of other agencies by invoking “suitability” considerations …More
A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against DOGE project employees having access to personal information on federal employees …More
In what is one of the first, if not the first, auditors’ report on the impact of staffing cuts at …More
In one of the early rulings showing the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last year lowering the deference …More
UPDATED: The federal workplace has entered an even higher level of disruption as agency workforces churn under the impact of …More
A report for Congress has raised issues regarding the Trump administration’s use of shutdown contingency plans as a guide to …More
The EEOC has said it will continue to apply its interpretation of protections under the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act for …More
In the latest of rulings overturning firings of the heads of independent federal agencies, a federal judge has ordered Susan Tsui Grundmann …More
Updated: The Senate advanced a cloture vote on Friday to end debate on a continuing resolution to fund the government …More
Updated: Two federal judges have ordered the reinstatement of many thousands of probationary employees fired by the Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, …More
In a memo that lays the groundwork for wide-scale reductions-in-force projected to come across the government, agencies have been told …More
Those on paid administrative leave after having accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer remain subject to federal employment ethics …More
Among bills recently reintroduced in Congress is HR-1522, affecting federal employees who began their careers after 1988 as temporary workers …More
DHS has withdrawn collective bargaining rights from TSA’s 47,000 transportation security officers—screeners—reversing more than a decade of allowing them and likely setting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
UPDATED: Hampton Dellinger has dropped his challenge to his firing as head of the Office of Special Counsel in the …More
The MSPB has blocked the firings of some 5,900 Agriculture Department probationary employees and ordered them reinstated, in an order that represents …More
A federal judge has overturned the Trump administration’s firing of a member of the MSPB governing board in a ruling …More
The SSA has said it has sent payments to more than a third of those eligible for retroactive payments under …More
A reduction in force memo from the VA has outlined plans to return that workforce to its 2019 force level …More
Spending authority for federal agencies funded through appropriations expires next Friday (March 14), an often-repeated situation of recent years with …More
UPDATED: A federal judge in California has followed a bench ruling of last Friday (February 28) with a written order …More
The Trump administration has sent a second email calling on federal employees to describe their activities of the previous week, …More
A federal district court has ordered that Office of Special Counsel head Hampton Dellinger remain in office, ruling that his …More
New instructions to agencies on carrying out President Trump’s executive order calling on them to prepare reorganization plans leading the …More
The MSPB has granted the Office of Special Counsel’s request to temporarily block the firings of six probationary employees, ordering …More
Following is a fact sheet posted by the MSPB regarding the legal rights of federal employees in their probationary periods, …More
