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CDC Told Employees to Resend Accommodation Medical Records in 20 Days or Lose Their Case. Is That Legal?
Can your agency sit on your reasonable accommodation request for months, then tell you to resend your medical records in 20 days or lose your case and your interim accommodation? C...
EEOC Votes August 26 on a Plan That Could End Your Right to an Independent Judge
On Wednesday, August 26 at 10 a.m. Eastern, the EEOC votes on a proposal that reports say could end federal employees' right to a hearing before an independent EEOC Administrative ...
Needed, But Not Named: When a Federal Detail Ends After Your Identity Goes Public
Losing a federal detail after your identity becomes public is not a personnel technicality ā€” it can be sex discrimination under Title VII, and federal employees are covered. The qu...
DoD's New EEO Pilots: What Defense Employees Should Know Before They File
The Department of Defense EEO complaint process is changing, and Defense civilian employees should understand what is moving before they file. On August 17, 2026, Federal News Netw...
OPM Removed the Bias Check on Federal Hiring Assessments: What Changed for Applicants
Federal hiring assessments no longer have to clear the government's 48-year-old bias check before an agency uses one on you. In an interim final rule that took effect immediately, ...
NTEU Sues Treasury and HHS Over Thousands of Stalled Accommodation Requests
Federal employees waiting on disability accommodation requests at the IRS, HHS, or CDC just got some backing. On Monday, the National Treasury Employees Union sued the Treasury Dep...
Probationary Firings and Federal Appeal Rights
For probationary federal employees, the past year has carried an unmistakable message: early-career service can feel precarious even when the government says it wants to recruit ne...
Schedule Policy/Career and Whistleblower Rights
For federal employees moved into Schedule Policy/Career, the most important question is not simply whether protections still exist. It is whether those protections can be meaningfu...
Federal NDAs and Whistleblower Rights
Reports that some federal employees in the Trump administration have been asked to sign broad nondisclosure agreements raise a serious but often misunderstood question: what can an...
Political Pressure on Federal Case Settlements
Federal employees depend on legal systems that are supposed to be neutral: the Merit Systems Protection Board, the EEO process, whistleblower protections, and related settlement me...
Federal EEO and MSPB Settlements Under Scrutiny
House Oversight Chairman James Comer has opened an inquiry into why the federal government pays to resolve so many federal employee grievances, pointing to federal-sector EEO and M...
EEOC Bias Concerns and Your EEO Case
Federal employees are taught to trust the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) process as a neutral pathway for resolving discrimination claims. But recent reporting raises a harder ...
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