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Retaliation is a real concern for many federal employees. Your agency has rules to follow and your rights are protected by federal laws. Still, retaliation can be hard to spot, especially when it starts slowly or looks like normal supervision. Understanding what may...
Over the last few years, remote work arrangements and hybrid arrangements where people work partially on-site and partially off-site have become far more common. Remote work has been a boon for those who may want to live in lower-cost areas while working for large...
Since President Trump took office again, federal government employees have faced significant employment law changes, affecting at least 12% of the federal government’s workforce. These changes have created a climate of uncertainty and stress and fundamentally altered...
Crisis narrowly averted. For now. At the time of writing, Congress just passed a temporary budget, funding the government for 45 days. While this stop-gap measure prevented an immediate shutdown, many wonder if we won’t find ourselves in the same situation within the...
The Veterans Administration (VA) has been in the news a lot lately. And this news is of interest to federal employees because it all centers around their rights to contest disciplinary actions. As a federal employee, you enjoy the protection of laws that say your...
Several laws protect federal employees from various forms of discrimination. When employees believe they’ve suffered because of discrimination, these laws allow them to hold their agencies accountable. But then, all too often, managers or others within the agencies...
For just over five years, the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) had gone without top leadership. This meant the board was unable to fully complete its work. But what is that work? What does it mean that the MSPB once again, finally, has a governing quorum of...
Last year, Congress passed the Elijah E. Cummings Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act. In January, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposed the rule it would use to uphold the law. Now, at the beginning of February, the comments period for the proposed...
As a federal employee, you may be confused about the current state of federal vaccine mandates. That’s understandable. There are multiple vaccine mandates in play, and their statuses have changed a great deal in the past months. One of the more important updates came...
A recent audit revealed that the IRS has failed to process discipline in a timely fashion. Of the 6,100 actions initiated over a 12-month period ending in mid-2020, more than a quarter remained unresolved. Many of these actions were more than half a year old. At the...