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Senate Reconciliation Bill Spares Federal Pay and Pensions
Federal employees woke up to rare good news this Monday. The Senate released its latest text for the giant reconciliation bill – and nearly every proposed cut to your pay, pension,...
What the SCOTUS Ruling on Trump vs. Casa Means for Federal Employees
Last Friday’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. CASA may feel distant from your day-to-day work as a federal employee. But its impact is immediate – particularly if you’re watchin...
Footnote 10: What SCOTUS’s Injunction Ruling Means for Federal RIFs
Today, while training to better serve federal employees, I received powerful news: our team secured a unanimous six-figure jury verdict for a client in federal court. From starting...
Trump v. Casa Ruling: Initial Takes
The Supreme Court issued a significant decision in Trump v. Casa last week, holding that district courts cannot issue universal injunctions blocking federal policies nationwide unl...
Proposed Pension Hike Could Slash Federal Employee Paychecks
Federal employees may soon face a staggering increase in pension contributions. According to draft legislative text reported by Politico, Senate Republicans are considering raising...
Supreme Court RIF Decision: Tools for Federal Employees Facing Uncertainty
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether nationwide injunctions blocking reductions in force (RIFs) will remain or fall. This means within hours, you may learn your positio...
Supreme Court Decisions Expected Friday: What It Means for You
Today is June 26, 2025, and if you’ve been waiting for key Supreme Court rulings affecting your federal employment or broader constitutional rights, tomorrow may bring clarity.
Th...
Will the Supreme Court End Nationwide Injunctions?
For federal employees anxiously watching legal developments around the nationwide RIF injunctions, today—Thursday, June 26, 2025—could be pivotal. Not necessarily because of a dire...
What the New OPM Memo Means for Your Federal Career
On June 17, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued an 18-page directive that quietly rewrites the performance rules for all civil service employees—GS-5s to SES alike. Whi...
OPM’s Final Rule Just Raised the Stakes for Probationary Feds
On June 24, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a sweeping final rule: Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service. This rule scraps the older “sile...
Court Blocks Executive Order Targeting Federal Unions
A significant legal development is offering breathing room for thousands of federal workers: a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction halting parts of an executive order...
NIH Ruling Signals Legal Opening for Equity Advocates in Federal Agencies
A recent federal court ruling found that cuts to the National Institutes of Health’s diversity research were not just bureaucratic missteps—they amounted to “palpable racial discri...
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