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A Year After the CDC Shooting, Here Is What the Law Still Gives Federal Employees
Federal employees processing a traumatic event at work often assume the legal protections available to them ran out when the news coverage stopped. They did not. A year after a gun...
OSHA Rights After USPS Worker Deaths
A United States senator’s inquiry into the Atlanta Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Palmetto, Georgia, should matter to every federal employee who has ever raised a s...
When “Gross” Becomes a Legal Issue
Rats running across employees’ feet. Bed bugs returning after fumigation. Coworkers climbing onto desks to avoid the floor. These are not merely unpleasant workplace stories. For f...
DOE Nuclear Waste Cleanup Staffing Crisis
Federal workforce cuts can sound abstract until they reach the people responsible for keeping radioactive waste contained. The Government Accountability Office’s recent audit of th...
Immigration Raid at Georgia EV Plant: Lessons for Federal Employees
On September 4, federal agents conducted the largest single-site immigration raid in Homeland Security Investigations’ history at the Hyundai–LG battery plant construction site in ...
Why Federal Employees Should Care About the Chemical Safety Board
Most federal employees can name the big agencies—EPA, OSHA, VA, DoD. But very few know the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). This independent agency has on...
Public “Watchlists” Target Federal Employees: Legal & Safety Risks
Imagine waking up to find your name, photograph, salary, and career history posted online—not by your agency, but by a private group branding you “subversive” for lawful work you p...
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