Federal Employee Resource Center

For federal employees moved into Schedule Policy/Career, the most important question is not simply whether protections still exist. It is whether those protections can be meaningfu...

A recent executive order reportedly removed civil service protections from an estimated 8,000 federal employees. That is serious, and affected employees should review the appendix ...

For months, federal employees have been watching the return of Schedule F under a new name: Schedule Policy/Career. On June 3, 2026, the President signed an executive order impleme...

When a federal science agency loses experienced employees, the public often hears the issue framed as “savings.” But the deeper question is whether the country is losing the instit...

NBC News, citing the American Foreign Service Association, reports that roughly 2,000 career diplomats have been laid off or pushed into retirement in the past year, not including ...

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...

Federal employees who face discipline, demotion, removal, or other covered personnel actions usually cannot bypass the civil service system and go straight to federal district cour...

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 should pay close attention to OPM’s draft governmentwide nondisclosure agreement, especially because the form reportedly could apply to roughly two million federa...

For federal employees, the pace of workplace disruption since January 2025 can feel overwhelming. Reclassifications, removals, DOGE-related agency actions, and attacks on collectiv...

Much of the current advice to federal employees about OPM’s proposed reduction-in-force changes begins and ends with one point: download your performance appraisals. That is import...

ProPublica’s recent video on Russell Vought is not ordinary political commentary. For federal employees, it is a warning about how ideas discussed in private strategy rooms can bec...