Federal Employee Resource Center

For many federal employees, the probationary period already feels precarious. Limited appeal rights. High discretion. Quiet pressure to “keep your head down.” A newly proposed rule...

Federal employees who lived through the last shutdown remember the strain vividly: delayed paychecks, frozen plans, and the constant question of when—or whether—Congress would act....

Recent remarks attributed to DHS leadership signal a dramatic shift in how disaster response might work in the United States: returning responsibility “to the most local level.” Fo...

Federal employees are increasingly being told a stark message: the President signed an executive order, so your bargaining rights are gone. When that message comes from agency lead...

Federal employees often rely on social media for timely updates about workplace rules, discipline risks, and changes that affect job security. But platforms are unpredictable. Impo...

Federal employees are right to ask a basic question: what exactly is a “minibus,” and why should anyone care? The answer matters because this type of legislation affects job securi...

Federal employees often hear big promises about protecting the civil service. Much less attention is paid to the quiet, technical work that actually does it. This week’s bipartisan...

Federal employees who rely on telework should pause and read the fine print of OPM’s revised guidance. The most consequential change is not about where work happens—it is about how...

Federal employees woke up on January 7, 2026, to something deeply unsettling: an official government webpage describing January 6, 2021, in ways that conflict with the established ...

Federal employees often sense when something at work feels off—when “budget issues” start looking less like routine management and more like a strategy to make an office fail. A re...

For months, a quiet but consequential shift rippled through the National Institutes of Health. Grants touching on gender-related health issues—cancer outcomes, maternal health, men...

For many GS-9 and above federal employees, telework has quietly shifted from a flexibility issue into a pay and compliance issue. OPM’s December 2025 Guide to Telework and Remote W...