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Over 1,000 Hatch Act Complaints, Zero Discipline: What OSC's Shutdown Messaging Report Means for Feds

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The Hatch Act watchdog has decided that no one will be disciplined over last fall's partisan shutdown messaging, even though it received more than 1,000 complaints about messages f...

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Federal Judge Stays OPM's "Favorite Executive Order" Question on Federal Job Applications

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A federal judge has stayed OPM's "favorite executive order" question on federal job applications, handing federal employees and applicants a significant win. On Friday, September 1...

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Hatch Act Complaint Filed Against the Attorney General: What It Means for Career Federal Employees

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The Hatch Act is the law most federal employees know by reputation and few know by text — and it is now at the center of a complaint against the nation’s top law enforcement office...

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Political Favoritism and Federal Employee Rights

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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...

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TSA Travel Waste and Whistleblower Rights

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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...

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Federal Scientists, Orders, and Whistleblower Rights

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Federal employees, especially scientists, often work in environments where technical judgment carries public consequences. The recent CNN report involving EPA scientists raises a d...

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Federal Employee NDAs and OSC Rights

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Federal employees are used to signing forms. Many are routine. But when a nondisclosure agreement reaches into whistleblower rights, every word matters. OPM’s newly proposed govern...

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Forced Rating Caps and Federal Employee Reviews

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For federal employees, a performance review is not just paperwork. It can affect promotions, assignments, awards, retention, and, in some systems, whether your career continues at ...

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