Federal Employee Resource Center

Federal employees are carrying a heavier emotional load this year, and Southworth PC is launching STEADY, a new weekly mindfulness practice built for exactly that.

A New Monday Se...

For federal employees, communication is no longer a soft skill. It can be the difference between preserving your record and creating an avoidable problem. A rushed email to a super...

After a year of uncertainty, criticism, reorganizations, and shifting workplace rules, federal employees received something rare: encouraging data. According to recent polling desc...

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

Federal employees often want a clear answer before contacting an attorney: “How do cases like mine usually turn out?” It is an understandable question. When your career, reputation...

Federal employees are carrying a lot right now: discipline concerns, probationary uncertainty, EEO questions, shifting workplace rules, and the constant need to understand what is ...

For many federal employees, Memorial Day is not abstract. It may be tied to military service, colleagues who served, family members who never came home, or the quiet grief carried ...

A new peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law gives federal employees language for something many have already felt in their bodies: the current att...

Gallup’s new analysis confirms what many federal employees already felt in their bodies before they saw it in a headline: 2025 was not an ordinary hard year. Federal workers experi...

For many federal employees, the pressure is no longer theoretical. The 2026 federal pay adjustment authorized a 1.0% across-the-board increase, with locality percentages remaining ...

The Service to America Medals—the “Sammies”—have long been treated as the Oscars of federal service. This year’s 25th annual ceremony carried a quieter message: many federal employ...

Alexis Goldstein’s reported firing from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau raises a hard question for federal employees: what happens when the duty to safeguard government in...