Federal Employee Resource Center

A federal employee recently asked the question many workers quietly carry: “If I take FMLA for burnout, will it end my career?” The honest legal answer is no—not by itself. Needing...

When a federal agency pushes out a researcher with 37 years of institutional knowledge, the loss is not abstract. It shows up in weakened programs, broken mentoring pipelines, dela...

OPM’s Federal Workforce Competency Initiative survey has understandably unsettled many federal employees. According to the transcript, the survey was sent to roughly 550,000 employ...

For many federal employees with disabilities, telework is not a preference. It is the difference between being able to perform the essential functions of a job and being pushed out...

Federal employees have reason to feel uneasy right now. The identity-theft protection offered after the 2015 OPM breach is beginning to expire, ten years after enrollment, even tho...

The FEMA Review Council’s final report uses unusually stark language: it recommends that the government “close the chapter” on FEMA as federal employees know it. For career civil s...

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...

A missed credit card payment can feel personal, even when the cause was completely outside your control. For federal employees affected by the 76-day DHS shutdown, the harm was not...

Many federal employees remember the February 2025 “what did you do last week” email not as a routine workplace request, but as a moment of shock. According to the transcript, feder...

The Service to America Medals—the “Sammies”—have long been treated as the Oscars of federal service. This year’s 25th annual ceremony carried a quieter message: many federal employ...

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...

For many federal employees, reduction-in-force notices have felt suspended in uncertainty: issued, delayed, litigated, and left unresolved. At the Department of State, that uncerta...