Federal Employee Resource Center

If you are a probationary federal employee, you have probably heard some version of this: “You’re on probation. They can fire you for anything. There’s nothing you can do.” That be...

After a year of reclassifications, proposed rule changes, and reduction-in-force notices, it can feel like federal employees have lost every protection Congress ever gave them. Tha...

OPM's Schedule Policy/Career reclassification converted roughly 8,000 career federal positions last month into an at-will job category — and more than 50 members of Congress now sa...

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...

A new Government Accountability Office report on DOGE's activity at the National Labor Relations Board reads, at first glance, like an all-clear. But a footnote buried in that same...

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...

Federal employees often know when an assignment feels legally or ethically wrong before a court ever says so. That is what many National Park Service employees may have experienced...

Federal employees are right to pay attention to OPM’s proposed governmentwide nondisclosure agreement. But the most important takeaway is this: the NDA is not currently in force, a...

A proposed governmentwide nondisclosure agreement for federal employees is not just another onboarding form. According to the transcript, the concern is not limited to one clause o...

Federal employees know what it means to work inside rules. Procurement rules, ethics rules, chain-of-command rules, disclosure rules, and merit-system rules are not technicalities....

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...

GAO’s April 28, 2026 report on DOGE access at Treasury is more than a technology story. It is a federal employment story about what happens when career employees are asked to move ...