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Black Women and Federal Workforce Losses
Recent labor-market data should matter to every federal employee who is watching workforce change unfold in real time. The Economic Policy Institute reported that Black women exper...
FEHB Medical Records and OPM Privacy Risks
Federal employees are right to ask careful questions when the agency that oversees their health benefits seeks access to detailed medical claims data. The issue now surrounding the...
The Federal Oath Is Not a Loyalty Pledge
Federal employees swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution. That distinction matters. The civil service is designed to serve the public through lawful, competent, nonpa...
Can the Executive Branch Dismantle a Department Congress Created?
Federal employees know the difference between a policy shift and an institutional dismantling. The reported transfer of two core Education Department functions—the Office for Civil...
Jackler v. DOJ and MSPB Appeal Rights
Federal employees should be watching Jackler v. Department of Justice closely. The case involves two career immigration judges, Megan Jackler and Brandon Jaroch, who were removed f...
Political Favoritism and Federal Employee Rights
Federal employees are trained to serve the public without regard to party, ideology, or political preference. That is why reports of disaster funding disparities between Democratic...
TSA Travel Waste and Whistleblower Rights
Federal employees are often the first to see the gap between what leadership says and what agencies actually do. According to the transcript, TSA cut roughly 3,000 workers in the n...
OSHA Rights After USPS Worker Deaths
A United States senator’s inquiry into the Atlanta Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Palmetto, Georgia, should matter to every federal employee who has ever raised a s...
DOGE Alumni, AI Contracts, and Federal Ethics
Federal employees have spent the last year living through workforce reductions, reorganizations, and shifting directives justified in the name of efficiency. Now, according to Vani...
VA LGBTQ+ Care Coordinator Memo: Employee Rights
For nearly a decade, VA facilities have included LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinators—roles created in 2016 after the agency identified that LGBTQ+ veterans were not consistently recei...
Public Doubts Federal Cuts Improved Efficiency
Federal employees have spent the past year absorbing reductions, reorganizations, removals, and shifting workplace expectations—all often justified in the name of making government...
Black Women’s Leadership in Federal Service
The history of Black women in federal service is not simply a story about access. It is a story about leadership built under pressure. For generations, Black women worked at high r...
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