Federal Employee Resource Center

The loyalty question on federal job applications — the essay asking how you would help advance the President’s executive orders — now sits alongside a second change most applicants...

A nondisclosure agreement cannot be used to block a federal employee from reporting wrongdoing — that protection comes from statute, not from whatever a form says, and it holds reg...

Federal employees are trained to serve the public without regard to party, ideology, or political preference. That is why reports of disaster funding disparities between Democratic...

Federal employees are used to signing forms. Many are routine. But when a nondisclosure agreement reaches into whistleblower rights, every word matters. OPM’s newly proposed govern...

For federal employees watching the military’s senior ranks, the recent reporting on blocked officer promotions deserves careful attention. According to the transcript’s account of ...

Federal employees are being placed in an impossible position: work that was assigned, required, or encouraged under one administration may now be treated as suspicious under anothe...

For federal employees, a performance review is not just paperwork. It can affect promotions, assignments, awards, retention, and, in some systems, whether your career continues at ...

The Department of Justice’s new lawsuit challenging D.C. Bar disciplinary proceedings is not just a dispute between lawyers. For federal employees—especially agency counsel, invest...

Federal employees are often told to stay neutral, keep records, and follow the chain of command. But neutrality must run both ways. According to the transcript, a federal lawsuit f...

Recent reporting from Government Executive says NIH employees are being required to run grant applications and progress reports through a text analysis tool that flags terms associ...

Federal employees who have been separated through a reduction in force often carry more than a job loss. They carry the fear that future agencies will quietly treat the RIF as a ma...

Many federal employees recently received a frustrating message: you were eligible for a quality step increase, but you were not selected. That disappointment is understandable. A Q...