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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—often referred to as “S...
Federal employees are hearing a lot of noise about layoffs—and most of it misses a critical development. Even though the recent shutdown has ended, Congress quietly extended a key protection that temp...
Black History Month is often framed as a time for reflection, celebration, and learning. For federal employees, it can also be a moment to think more deeply about how racial justice shows up in daily ...
When a shutdown or funding lapse looms, many federal employees report the same unsettling pattern: offices acting as if it’s “business as usual,” while managers avoid putting anything in writing. That...
Many federal employees woke up this morning hoping for closure. The partial shutdown is only a few days old, and there is a real chance it ends later today. If that happens, some furloughed or disrupt...
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 workforce: what has truly ...
Black History Month turns 100 this year. It began in 1926 as Negro History Week, created by Dr. Carter G. Woodson to correct a national record that erased Black contributions from American life. His g...
Federal employees received an unexpected update late Thursday afternoon: according to the New York Times, Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans, and the White House have reached a framework aimed at av...
Federal employees are trained to read process before panic. That lens is especially important after reports that the FBI executed a search warrant at a Georgia election office. Headlines moved fast. S...
Federal employees woke up this morning to something that has been missing for days: a credible offramp from a government shutdown. Not a promise, not a done deal—but a real procedural path that could ...
Federal employees are increasingly being asked to do more with less—fewer staff, tighter deadlines, and higher stakes. A recent report that the Department of Transportation plans to use Google’s Gemin...
As the January 30 funding deadline approaches, federal employees are entering what can fairly be called the danger zone. With only days left on the calendar, Congress remains locked in a stalemate tha...
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