Federal Employee Resource Center

OPM's new suitability rule lets the agency order the removal of a sitting federal employee for conduct that happened after they were hired — and Government Executive's headline for...

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...

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...

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...

A reduction in force is supposed to serve the efficiency of the service. That phrase matters. It is not just a bureaucratic label or a line in an agency announcement. When an agenc...

Federal employees are navigating a workplace moment that cannot always be explained in three minutes. Discipline, probationary removals, shifting civil service protections, agency ...

Federal employment is often described as one of the most reliable pathways into the middle class. For many Black families, that became true over time. But it is important not to mi...

President Trump’s June 3, 2026 executive order moving roughly 8,000 federal positions into Schedule Policy/Career has understandably drawn intense attention across the federal work...

For months, federal employees have been watching the return of Schedule F under a new name: Schedule Policy/Career. On June 3, 2026, the President signed an executive order impleme...

For many Black federal employees, recent layoffs and anti-DEI actions are not just policy developments. They feel like a warning sign about whether one of the country’s most reliab...

For most federal employees, removal cases follow a familiar path. If an agency fires someone for performance, conduct, or as part of a reduction in force, the Merit Systems Protect...

A recent MSPB decision—Jackler and Jaroch v. Department of Justice, 2026 MSPB 3—raises a fundamental question for federal employees: when does the Constitution override traditional...