Federal Employee Resource Center

Federal employees do not stop being citizens when they leave the workplace. That principle matters when an employee attends a public vigil, speaks on a matter of public concern, an...

Alexis Goldstein’s reported firing from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau raises a hard question for federal employees: what happens when the duty to safeguard government in...

FEMA’s reported effort to bring back disaster-response workers whose CORE appointments were not renewed is not just an agency-management headline. It is a reminder that federal emp...

A Pulitzer Prize may sound like a media story, but this one belongs in every federal workplace conversation. On May 4, 2026, The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public S...

After the longest Department of Homeland Security shutdown in history, most DHS employees are funded again. TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, Secret Service, and other DHS components are...

The Department of Agriculture’s plan to relocate much of the Food and Nutrition Service workforce outside the Washington area raises a question every federal employee should take s...

For many federal employees, arbitration feels like a distant part of the collective bargaining agreement—something handled by union representatives or labor counsel after a grievan...

The record-setting Department of Homeland Security shutdown ended on Thursday, April 30, 2026, when President Trump signed bipartisan legislation funding much of DHS, though not im...

Federal employees received a meaningful reminder this week: retaliation-flavored personnel actions are not always the final word. FEMA has reportedly welcomed back at least 15 whis...

Federal job applicants are reporting a troubling disconnect between what the Office of Personnel Management says publicly and what USAJOBS applications appear to require in practic...

In Louisiana v. Callais, a six-justice Supreme Court majority affirmed that Louisiana’s SB8 map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The key move was not that Section 2 of t...

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 ...