Gutting Civil Rights Offices Leaves Federal Workers Few Options
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Bloomberg Law) — The Trump administration is quietly downsizing offices across the government that are responsible for processing internal discrimination…
Trump’s Slew of Federal Layoffs Is Benefitting at Least One Industry
WASHINGTON, D.C. (POLITICO) — As the Donald Trump administration ramps up the mass-firings of public servants, it’s not a great time to be looking for work in Washington…
Executive Orders, Preliminary Injunctions, and SCOTUS Stays: What is Happening in the Courts with Federal Workforce Cuts?
After President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14210 in February 2025, directing federal agencies to plan for and implement significant reductions in force (RIFs), millions…
Union calls for reinstatement of EPA workers suspended over letter
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Government Executive) — The union that represents workers at the Environmental Protection Agency this week called on Administrator Lee Zeldin to reinstate…
Supreme Court lets Trump proceed with federal workforce cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Baltimore Sun) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to allow President Donald Trump’s administration to move forward with his plan to thin out the…
Campaign-Related Items in Workplace Now OK under Hatch Act, Says OSC
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FEDweek) — The Office of Special Counsel has reversed positions it took last year that had strengthened restrictions on wearing or displaying…
Some Hatch Act restrictions loosened under the Trump administration
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Government Executive) — The Trump administration on Friday relaxed enforcement of certain rules under the Hatch Act, a law that restricts the partisan…
Is the Trump administration’s buyout offer to federal employees legal?
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC News) — As millions of federal workers face a looming deadline to decide whether to accept the Trump administration’s unprecedented buyout offer,…
Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge’s order
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Washington Post) — For the federal workers struggling to decide whether to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program offer, a…
What’s next now that a federal judge has issued a stay in the ‘deferred resignation’ offer
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTOP) — A federal judge has temporarily halted an order for federal workers to accept a “deferred resignation” offer, which they originally had until…