Employee unions are challenging the Trump administration’s moves to fire vast swaths of the federal workforce, saying they violate regulations for carrying out mass “RIFs” across government. In a new lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday, five employee unions allege the administration’s moves to initiate reductions-in-force and lay off probationary employees are illegal...
The Trump administration is looking further scale down the size of the federal workforce by giving federal employees governmentwide the option to voluntarily resign from their positions in exchange for eight months of pay. In an email the Office of Personnel Management sent out to all federal employees Tuesday evening, the Trump administration offered most of the 2.2 million employees in the career federal workforce the option of resigning from their roles in what it called a “deferred resignation program.”
President Donald Trump is launching his Department of Government Efficiency within the White House’s governmentwide IT and design shop, according to an executive order he signed Monday evening. Trump’s executive order makes DOGE an official part of the Executive Office of the President. That’s a different model than what Trump envisioned last November, when he said the government efficiency commission would advise, but not be part of the federal government.
A federal judge in Massachusetts barred the government on Thursday from imposing a midnight deadline on federal workers who were offered a deferred resignation plan, freezing the government from implementing the deadline until a hearing on Monday… read more
After 38 years of SEC service and 5 years as the Vice President of NTEU Chapter 293, Lance Alworth retired from the agency effective January 11, 2025. He has been replaced by CHRO union steward Drew O'Brien.
President Donald Trump has revived a familiar executive order aiming to remove civil service protections for a large portion of the federal workforce, in effect making many career federal employees at-will and easier to fire. The executive order… read more
The incoming Trump administration is preparing executive orders aimed at the federal workforce that could be implemented within days, kicking off an effort that they see as essential for wresting power away from career government employees,… read more
We join the nation in mourning the death of former President Jimmy Carter, whose dedication to public service and humanitarian work has left an indelible mark on our country. With his support, Congress passed the milestone Civil Service Reform Act… read more
The Senate passed a 3-month continuing resolution, just hours after the House, sending it to President Biden. The final CR, which extends funding through March 14, 2025, also provides disaster relief and extends the farm bill for one year.… read more
After walking away from the bipartisan spending deal, House Republican leadership has so far failed to come up with a new plan to fund the government that can pass before the deadline at midnight tonight. 
Last night, Republicans reversed their position on the bipartisan deal for a continuing resolution (CR) that they had announced earlier this week, raising the risk of a shutdown when government funding expires on Friday night.
For the career civil service, there are still many unknowns in the days following President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 election win. But many longtime federal workforce experts are at the very least anticipating a revival of Schedule F...
President-elect Trump’s forthcoming government efficiency commission is hoping to institute large-scale layoffs of federal employees and force civil servants to work in their offices five days per week, according to one of the business executives… read more