Federal Employee Resource Center

There are moments when public rhetoric attempts to reduce Black federal employees to stereotypes—minimizing generations of service with a single headline or comment. For Black GS e...

Federal employees received a temporary reprieve when Congress restricted agencies from using appropriated funds to initiate or carry out new reductions in force (RIFs). That restri...

Federal employees facing possible reclassification into Schedule Policy/Career now have a new and very practical concern: compensation.

Recent supplemental guidance from OPM confi...

Every federal employee knows the tension of a shutdown week: unclear guidance, shifting emails, and pressure to “keep things running.” But when that confusion spills into time-and-...

Black History Month is often framed as a moment to reflect on the past. For Black federal employees, it is also a moment to understand the present—and to ask harder questions about...

Federal employees are waking up to a significant shift in the civil service landscape. Reporting indicates that OPM is expected to finalize a rule creating a new classification—oft...

Black History Month has reached its 100-year mark. Black federal employment stretches back nearly 160 years. Those timelines invite a hard but necessary question for today’s workfo...

Federal employees are hearing the phrase “good government” a lot lately—but a new report suggests the reality inside agencies looks far less reassuring. The Partnership for Public ...

For federal employees, leadership at the top of an agency is not an abstract concern. It determines how power is exercised, how mistakes are corrected, and whether career staff are...

For many federal employees, 2025 has felt destabilizing—especially for those who built careers around the assumption that the rule of law, not political loyalty, anchors public ser...

Federal employees are used to policy shifts. What is unfolding around the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is something different—and more personal for anyone workin...

A newly filed federal lawsuit out of Maryland involving a senior NIH leader is sending a chill through the federal workforce—not because of who is involved, but because of what the...