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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...
DOGE cuts to the U.S. Forest Service did not just take people off a payroll — in northern Minnesota, they took away the work those people were doing, and this summer the bill arriv...
FEMA lost roughly 4,500 employees in eighteen months without ever assessing what the agency actually needed, according to a new Government Accountability Office audit — and the age...
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, ...
Off-duty social media posts can cost federal employees more than they expect. A director at the General Services Administration posted his opinion about a federal hiring rule on hi...
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...
Federal employees tracking government shutdown risk got a new data point Monday: the Senate voted 89-4 to advance its own stopgap funding bill, and it does not match the one the Ho...
Federal employees are starting another week with headlines saying the rules changed again — and for a lot of people the shoulders are already up at the ears before the first cup of...
The AFGE–VA master agreement reaches its three-year terminal date on August 8, 2026, and whether the contract ends that day comes down to a single paragraph that most coverage has ...
Federal employees have watched a familiar pattern repeat across agencies this year, and a Pentagon office offers one of the clearest examples yet: an office Congress required by st...
An agricultural commodity grader and a federal immigration judge may seem to have little in common. Yet a new congressional brief in Jackler v. Department of Justice argues that th...
A recent Federal News Network survey found that most federal employees say returning to the office has made them less productive — but for most workers, a return-to-office (RTO) or...
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