In the GAO’s latest report on the impact of telework before the Trump administration’s return-to-office order (see related story) officials of three agencies cited positive impacts on recruitment and retention...
In the latest of GAO reports looking back telework before the Trump administration’s return-to-office order, officials of three more agencies told the GAO that they had seen positive impacts...
Independent federal arbitrator Marvin Hill defied the Trump administration's demand that he dismiss an internal grievance against the Defense Department, remarking that to do so would require "re-writing" most legal textbooks...
The Trump administration in 2025 made excising or otherwise cracking down on unions a focal point of its push to overhaul the federal workforce.
The inventory of retirement applications pending at OPM grew in November to about 49,400 from the 34,600 in October, although the average processing time there decreased from 79 to 73 days, as use of the online portal OPM launched in the summer is… read more
A bipartisan bill that would end the Trump administration’s rollback of collective bargaining for most federal employees is guaranteed to get a full House vote, now that a majority of lawmakers support it...
Congress has approved a spending agreement that will allow the government to fully reopen once it is signed into law, ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The President is expected to sign it shortly.
WHEN: On Thursday, October 16, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Eastern, NTEU Chapter 293 will hold its annual member meeting.
A handful more agencies are now under orders from the White House to terminate their collective bargaining agreements with federal unions. In an executive order signed Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump added more agencies and a few agency… read more
The Trump Administration Is Considering Notifying Probationary Employees They Were Fired for Cause, Actually
The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to toss previously issued rulings that found its mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees unlawful, arguing the existence of the orders is continuing to impact… read more
A federal appellate court last week issued a formal stay allowing President Trump’s executive order banning unions for two-thirds of the federal workforce to go into effect, effectively extending the short-term hold it placed on a lower court ruling… read more
Union's Telework Survey Reveals Strong Consensus on Return to Office: It's Bad for Employees and Bad for the Agency
The union recently surveyed bargaining unit employees regarding SEC management's Return to Office (RTO) order, which went into effect on April 14, 2025. Approximately half of the non-management employees at the SEC took the survey, which… read more
Most workers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were initially exempt from President Donald Trump's January mandate that federal workers return to the office, due to terms in the unionized workforce's collective bargaining agreement. That… read more
After the Trump Administration intensified its push for federal workers to return to the office, a new study highlights the potential downsides of this mandate.Conducted by Alessandra Fenizia and Tom Kirchmaier, researchers from the George… read more