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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...
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...
Reports that some federal employees in the Trump administration have been asked to sign broad nondisclosure agreements raise a serious but often misunderstood question: what can an...
Federal employees are right to read OPM’s proposed governmentwide nondisclosure agreement carefully. The draft does more than ask employees to protect sensitive information. It rai...
Federal employees should pay close attention to OPM’s draft governmentwide nondisclosure agreement, especially because the form reportedly could apply to roughly two million federa...
A Pulitzer Prize may sound like a media story, but this one belongs in every federal workplace conversation. On May 4, 2026, The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public S...
When federal agents execute a search warrant at a reporter’s home, it is not just a media ethics issue. For federal employees, it is a risk signal. A recent search of Washington Po...
Congress just moved a significant step closer to reshaping how long new federal employees must work before gaining full MSPB appeal rights. The EQUALS Act, which passed the House O...
Imagine discovering that your out-of-office email—sent from your official government account—was changed without your consent to blame one political party for the government shutdo...
This week, at least fifteen federal watchdog websites—including Oversight.gov, home to more than 34,000 inspector general reports—went dark. These sites weren’t casualties of the g...
Recent reporting reveals that nearly 3,000 FBI agents are being pulled from their core work—investigating child exploitation and domestic extremism—and reassigned to immigration en...
The removal of CDC Director Susan Monarez after just weeks on the job—and the immediate resignation of several senior leaders—has left the agency in turmoil. While headlines focus ...
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