Federal Employee Resource Center

Employees at the Department of the Interior (DOI) are facing a serious development: agency leadership has begun finalizing reduction-in-force (RIF) lists, with potential impacts ac...

A federal judge recently found that former President Trump unlawfully removed 17 Inspectors General (IGs). By law, the President must give Congress 30 days’ notice and provide a sp...

In recent weeks, watchdog groups have revealed a troubling development at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Although a federal court ordered OMB to restore its public appo...

If funding lapses after September 30, both furloughed and excepted employees stop receiving pay. The 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act guarantees back pay—including overt...

The General Services Administration (GSA) has just made a surprising move: rescinding RIF notices for hundreds of employees in the Public Buildings Service (PBS). Many of you now f...

With just over a week until the September 30 funding deadline, federal employees are left in limbo. Unlike prior years, when the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published eve...

For decades, agencies could deny religious accommodations by pointing to any “more than tiny” cost or inconvenience. That changed in Groff v. DeJoy. Now, under Title VII, an agency...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it was pausing approvals—and even renewals—of telework as a disability accommodation. The agency poin...

In February, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ordered many remote employees living more than 50 miles from an OPM worksite to accept a management-directed reassignment (MDR...

This year’s “Fork in the Road” Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) was framed as a way to streamline the federal workforce. Many employees at the Department of Labor and other agenc...

If you are a federal employee navigating disability accommodations, you already know the law can feel like a maze. Agencies have trained coordinators, HR specialists, and sometimes...

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s viral statement that DOJ would “go after” hate speech sparked confusion. Let’s be clear: in the United States, there is no blanket crime called “hate s...