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Twenty-Two Cases, Two Million Feds: OPM Reopens Comments on Its Federal Removal Rule Through September 29
Would you rewrite the federal removal rules for two million people based on twenty-two cases? That is what is on the table. The Office of Personnel Management has reopened the publ...
USDA Says 64% Accepted Relocation. Employees Say the Accept Button Was Not a Choice.
USDA directed reassignments are back in federal court, and the number the department gave the judge is now in dispute. On August 28, a senior USDA official told the court that 725 ...
You Won at the MSPB but the Agency Appealed: Why You Should Still Be Paid While You Wait
MSPB interim relief is the rule that answers a painful scenario. You won your Merit Systems Protection Board case in March. The Administrative Judge ordered you back to work. The a...
Four Unions Sue OPM Over the Rule That Reroutes Removals — and Their Appeals — to OPM
OPM's new suitability rule could reroute roughly half of all federal misconduct removals through OPM itself — and that figure is OPM's own estimate, published in the Federal Regist...
What 130 Federal Job Postings Reveal About Schedule Policy/Career
Schedule Policy/Career tags are appearing on federal job postings well below the grade levels officials described, according to a review of more than 130 USAJOBS listings by the Pa...
Reservist Differential Pay: Three Papers to Pull if You Were Activated Since 2009
Reservist differential pay is one of the quietest entitlements in federal employment, and if you are a federal employee who has been activated since 2009, there may be back pay sit...
The IRS Restored Union Email for Managers and Left It Blocked for Bargaining Unit Employees
Your right to a union representative in a federal adverse action case is only as good as your ability to reach that representative — and at the IRS, Government Executive reports, t...
September 2: OPM Starts Deciding Appeals About Its Own Rules
On September 2, 2026, three categories of federal employee appeals — reduction in force, probationary and trial period actions, and suitability actions — move out of the Merit Syst...
Are FBI Agents At-Will Employees? What Garman v. Patel Means for Your Due Process Rights
Are FBI agents at-will employees? The Justice Department says yes, and it has said so in writing to a federal judge. The FBI Agents Association has now filed 31 pages arguing the o...
Forced Agency Relocations: What the Law Requires When You Cannot Move
Forced agency relocations are reaching federal employees at six or more agencies this summer, and NPR’s review of public records and internal communications this week describes a r...
Is One Business Day a “Reasonable Time to Answer”? Inside the Proposed OPM–MSPB Rule
A proposed federal rule could give you as little as one business day to answer a proposed suspension—and if you are a federal employee, that is worth understanding now, while it is...
What Is a "Mixed Case"? The Federal Employment Term That Controls Your Deadline
If you're a federal employee facing a removal, demotion, or long suspension, and you believe discrimination played a role, the label "mixed case" isn't just legal jargon — it deter...
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